Tank dps harrasment

[KaldeaSahaline]

Actively? No. Casually with FC and friends? Yeah. But I do sometimes wander into PUGs or PFs to fill a spot for a friend and I never know if there is a parser running in the group or not. I've known about parsers for a good chunk of my time on FFXIV and honestly flip flop on my thoughts about them. But whether I do the content where they 'matter most' or not doesn't really negate the point at hand

The picture I was trying to paint is the player who only does his daily roulettes and trial roulette. They maybe do some hunts and some triple triad. This type of player I can say with near 100% confidence doesn't know or care what type of shit shows on FFLogs. They are blissfully ignorant. Therefore any singular player who is in this category (which the community frequently mentions is the majority, so let's assume that for a second) really doesn't have a dog in the fight. They aren't affected by it. Good players aren't affected either. So that leaves the middle players. Likely a sizable element of the community, but helps give context to just how infrequent this really is.

I can't outright say it is anything illegal, not without doing a ton of research that would involve some...risky searches. (Cause googling "Is it illegal to X?" never seems suspicious...) But overall, yeah I think if they did switch over to an opt in model, i.e, only people who sign up with FFlogs and use the parser are the ones whose data is recorded and posted to a third party site for a bunch of other people to browse and scrutinize are the only ones whose data is recorded. Yeah, I think that would be a much better option. One that would most likely settle some people's grievances with this stuff. It would settle the harassment argument to a hefty degree, since only people who WANT to be parsed are being parsed and those who don't are left alone. As it stands now though? The whole thing is kinda...squicky to me.

It's not illegal at all.

Opt in model would defeat the entire purpose of it and the fact that you aren't aware of that further contributes to my point above about being blissfully ignorant. That just leaves the notion that you feel 'slighted' over something that doesn't even affect you, which hopefully sounds as ridiculous to you as it does to me.

Tell me exactly with specific examples how your data being public on FFLogs is negatively impacting your play experience. You personally. Not your friend's mother/brother/sister cousin, or some guys forum post. You personally.

This why people are asking for SE to reach out to request FFlogs to be opt in instead of out. This choice has no impact the usefulness of the tool, and if those running FFlogs refuse then SE can look into further options such as making the data gathered only be personal as a last resort. Having that data is not going to make the player want to improve, if the player is in the bottom 20% they prob do not wish to improve and to be frank that data is useless to any outside of those wishing to mock or ridicule a player. I am not saying you personally though I just do not get why people do not want SE to at the very request that FFlogs makes their site opt in instead of out.

I mean and if they are in the bottom 20% and wish to improve their play awesome, they can use the data and work on openers, rotations etc . . .

Opt in would destroy the tool. That's why it nor Warcraft logs are that way.

You were hit by a tank buster when not in tank stance. Or, Tank grabs lots of mobs and dies because as a healer I have to wait until tank has command of aggro before I do anything or... OOPS. I died by trying to keep the tank alive... STUPID HEALER WHY DIDN'T YOU WAIT FOR ME TO GET AGGRO. You had less then 20% health left. I didn't have a choice but to bene you. I been on every side of this argument. Job comes first. Everything else secondary. If the healer is having a hard time keeping you, THE TANK, alive while you decide to stroke your micro sized E-pen. Put tank stance on. Healers. Find a compromise. If their's a lul in damage being delt do a bit of dps. rather have mp incase the shit hits the fan. Dps... Go nuts. Do what you do best. Don't make it your priority. Make a point. Ok you have less then... 40% mp left. Ok time to start thinking about conservation tactics via letting your dps go and think about healing. Shut the fuck up you don't know how to play healer... Dude... I play every class. You want to give constructive criticism after you see me at work... Go for it. My job comes first. If I'm the tank. I'll tank. I'll stance dance during lul points after a tank buster and I know I have time to switch back to tank stance for the next one. As a healer.... I'll do both healing and dps tell my mp gets to about 50%.. Then.. I drop my dps for healing until my mp gets back to about 80% then I'll dps again. And dps.. Do what you do best. Flame em if you want that's just how I play. And so far. No one has bothered to contradict my style. If it works for you. Go for it. I just wish this whole toxicity of put your balls to the walls for dps would stop.

I can literally solo every single boss in current end game dungeons as a tank. I don't need tank stance to survive tank busters that barely hit me for ANYTHING, even in Savage/EX.