Quote Originally Posted by AziraSyuren View Post
It seems like anti-parsers are generally so afraid of toxicity that they act toxic themselves.

:thinking:

I'm overwhelmingly for an in-game parser. DPS need to be held accountable for being terrible as much as bad healers and tanks do, if not more.
As I've said before. I'm not against parsers. I even use them on occasion. What I am against is the way the general community uses them and the information they provide..

especially on things like fflogs where the only thing people look at is your dps..

Not so long ago discovered I was on there with a few parses. some ok some pretty bad, but I went on and hid them all. simply because of the way people interpret the data.

I got kicked out a susano ex about a minute after joining party because I only did 2.4k dps according to fflogs.. at the time I didn't even know I was on it at all. so went to look and sure enough 2.4k dps. dug a little deeper and I was dead just over 3 minutes of that fight one shot by assail. so 3 minutes of twiddling my thumbs waiting for a raise would justify my low dps. if the party leader had bothered to look that little bit further he might have realised my dps while I was alive was actually pretty high. high enough that I got hit by assail in the frist place and not a tank) and not just see only 2.4k and kick me.

theres a v1s parse where I did 2.9k dps as a samurai. who was dead almost 4 minutes when people did the thunder mechanic wrong and all stacked on me instead of spreading out to there pre assigned positions. that was a sloppy run in general. one of the healers kept dying so they were taking all the raises which is why I was down almost 4 minutes. cleared it with maybe half a second before the enrage aoes wiped us...

the problem is I don't really care for fflogs at all myself. so I don't parse regualarly or upload my own parses or any of that stuff. so what ends up on there is regarding me is a somewhat innacurate sample.. i've cleared susano just over 40 times I think. and of them all 2 of them ended up on logs. it's not an accurate sample size or representation at all. yet plenty of people will treat it as gospel fact...

last night a friend got kicked from a susano party cos his dps was low and he died to much. yet rng was not kind to him and he was the one that kept getting encased in the rocks and his subsequent deaths and thus dps downtime were because maybe 2 people in the whole party were trying to break him out... even when he marked himself as "1" but the parser said low dps so kicked....

This is the reason why I tend to be anti parser. because Parsers themselves are great. the way the community looks at the data is the problem.