Built-in Parsers

[Taika]

If your interest is improving your output you can use a training dummy to train yourself for specific fights. The fights are scripted events. Watch a video of the fight and adjust yourself for the mechanics as they come up. It's really not that hard to do.

Really, not that hard? Can you show me some of your logs from Savage or Extremes, your performance based on dummy training? Or show a video where you're using a training dummy to practice your OS4 rotation?

Edit: Now I can't get an image out of my head of myself running around the SSS area "performing OS2 mechanics" while playing the fight in my head (TENTACLE EAST!!!! GO UP!!!! STOP DPS AND TURN AWAY!!!!)

The only reason you'd use a parser in the actual fight is to point the finger at someone when it goes wrong.

I need to address this too. I have been pugging Savage for a while now, every single of those parties has been parsed, and not once have myself or someone else "pointed a finger" at anyone for low numbers, even when the runs have gone terribly wrong. But of course if someone is messing up every single mechanic and constantly dying, thus preventing the group from progressing (in a group where everyone who joined has claimed to know the fight), that has to be pointed out (in a nice manner). And the same way, if someone is constantly doing significantly less DPS than they should be (and not because of deaths or other circumstances that aren't their fault), again preventing the group from progressing (or just forcing everyone else to carry them), that also has to be pointed out. Now just in case, I'm only referring to content where DPS and performance matter, in other words Extremes, Savage and Ultimate. Also, you need to remember all this content is already parsed: it's 99% certain that whenever you enter an instance in one of these, you will be parsed. What an official parser would change would be to bring transparency to this (so that instead of someone claiming your performance is bad without proof, you would be able to see for yourself if it is or isn't), and give PS4 players the access to the tool PC players are already using.

Also, what's with all the people who aren't even doing content where a parser is needed (and what parser is asked for!) complaining about it? This debate does not concern you. If it's implemented as an optional feature for premade parties, mostly used for Extremes, Savage and Ultimate, and you don't do any of those things (and if you would, you'd still get an option to refuse from using it), why are you trying to forbid it from the players who do that content and could use it?