Would you like an in-game parser?

[MihaelB]

I made this thread long ago when I was on a NA server grinding the relic in 'Expert Roulettes' where the general population of players were below the average and many not knowing their rotations.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-system./page8

I moved to Tonberry a few months after and akin to the opening introduction of the thread, I stopped caring about what happened in NA as JP standards were much more higher.

Relating back to the topic of this thread, I switched to a new laptop and haven't downloaded a parser, allowing ignorance to how players generally play. If the dungeon is going slow, you know someone DPSes slow or someone isn't DPSing. If it goes quick, you know everyone knows their thing. Knowing exact numbers will only drag you down mentally and morally in a game and this is what this is, a 'game'.

I thoroughly enjoy the game more being ignorant to who is doing what and who is slacking in my 'teams'. As horrible as it is, many players will never change and you can only do what you do best until the game decides to alleviate their gameplay level from casual to something higher.

Some people spend over 10+ hours a day on here in pure high level play and they can keep their private parsers like a tool for their gameplay, like any other tool a specialist needs. Not much in this game needs a high level of DPS in order to clear and it is mainly during grind(relic) phases where we need speed.

[Selova]

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I agree with you on the point that you don't need to see actual numbers on a parser to be able to tell if someone doesn't know how to play their job. I can tell when a dragoon isn't using their DS+ST combo on large trash pulls, same with monks and rockbreaker, ect. If you are familiar enough with most of the jobs it's glaringly obvious when someone has no idea what they are doing, or they do and just contribute it to their own "playstyle".


The only part i don't agree with is your point on knowing exact numbers and how it drags you down. This depends on the person entirely. I always like to see a visual representation on how much I'm contributing in group content as well as pushing myself to get better each time, I personally enjoy that aspect of mmo's, others that don't give one lick about the number game or pushing themselves to improve, that's fine, you do you. It's a game and games should be fun for the person playing, but everyone has a differen't take on what makes the game fun for them personally. That's really all i wanted to say. Cheers.

[Sebazy]

If the dungeon is going slow, you know someone DPSes slow or someone isn't DPSing. If it goes quick, you know everyone knows their thing. Knowing exact numbers will only drag you down mentally and morally in a game and this is what this is, a 'game'.

That's something that's down to a player's individual mentality really. I log and record everything out of habit and frankly, other people's DPS barely registers for me, I'm only really interested in my own personal thing. About the only time I tend to pipe up in casual content is if people are getting themselves killed repeatedly or I'm pulling agro off the tank (both of which naturally scupper my DPS ambitions ).