Why do so many people FAIL at dps.

[Andrea]

I'm quite sure all the parsers have been wrong and been parsing wrong numbers. I can't think of why a dps would be that bad otherwise.

We can only hope.

[Deathcharge]

Since I started the grind for the relic. This is the conclusion I have arrived at. People don't give 2 cents about others and if they can get away with getting carried they will do as little as possible. I have been grinding dungeons as a DRK, BRD, BLM and SMN. And it always comes to 1 or more people just not wanting to do the job. By the way I am talking about players with i180+ gear grinding the same dungeons so there is no excuse for them not to know their jobs. Most of the time I have seen people just use auto attack. Considering the kinda time grind We have for the relics sometimes it is just easier to drop party and do hunts till timer resets and then re-que and hope the new party consist of better players.

[Phoenicia]

I'm quite sure all the parsers have been wrong and been parsing wrong numbers. I can't think of why a dps would be that bad otherwise.

Come to think of it! I'm sure me doing 400 DPS was just me discovered better ways to deal massive damage that the parsers can't read it. I mean the mob taking 2 minutes longer than it should is DEFINITELY because of the other people doing 1400 DPS not breaking the parsing tools like me! I'm in actuality doing 4000! If they other people do the same, the mob would die 5 minutes sooner!

I like how you think <3.

[CookieMonsta]

I honestly don't understand, my buddy and I were doing a Aery dungeon, He was the tank and I was the mch and the funny thing is, there was another mch in level 60 full geared out in 200, whatever, hes helping his healer friend or something ok.

Good bye everyone. *sigh*

Come Tonberry, the JP know what you re talking about. You cant teach those unwilling to learn.

[Unaki]

Simple: DPS isn't just right click, press a button.

[Yasuhiro]

Come Tonberry, the JP know what you re talking about. You cant teach those unwilling to learn.

Tonberry is in a pretty bad state at the moment with all the NA's moving over recently to get their clears.
It's the talk of my linkshell nearly everyday.

[Jim_Berry]

Thank you so much for your comment, thats is part of what I tried to say. I agree with comment, we can ignore on how people play most of the time, and sometimes give a little help or a guide.
But if we meet with someone who has none experience or is only auto atacking or being carried/trolling in content of lvl51+, tell me how can we ignore that? Wasnt that the point of Pinki's thread?
To make everyone clear a difference between this 2 kinds of low players?

Well, obviously, we can't ignore trolls; I don't. But if there's someone who has no experience, they should be offered help. Pet peeve is when someone is new, and we get to a boss, I stand outside the room to explain. Sadly, some tanks, or dps, would still pull while I'm typing. In this event, I still explain the battle even know I'm about to be locked out. If they can 3-man it with the new person, cool... If not, they should learn to wait until everyone is in the room.

We all played long enough to know NOT to start a boss battle when a member, who's been active the entire time, all of a sudden stop moving outside the room.

[Jim_Berry]

I'm quite sure all the parsers have been wrong and been parsing wrong numbers. I can't think of why a dps would be that bad otherwise.

I believe some parsers are wrong. In one run, two different people parsed my PLD; one person got me at 665 while another parsed me at 701. So, parsers aren't always legit.

[CookieMonsta]

I believe some parsers are wrong. In one run, two different people parsed my PLD; one person got me at 665 while another parsed me at 701. So, parsers aren't always legit.

Parsers, especially ACT, is actually sensitive to latency. High levels of latency/lost packets can actually increase ur perceived DPS because the length of time elapsed has been shortened. Thats why a running average with multiple people is more accurate.

[Kaurie]

Parsers, especially ACT, is actually sensitive to latency. High levels of latency/lost packets can actually increase ur perceived DPS because the length of time elapsed has been shortened. Thats why a running average with multiple people is more accurate.

There can be other differences as well, such as different encounter cut off times, simulating DoT crits (or not), version of plugin etc.