An Alternative? to parsers..

[RiyahArp]

I don't even think its about needing a parser. Its really about being able to kick when using one. If SE just said "we wont ban based on complaints about dps" watch the parser talk dry up instantly. because most people probably wouldn't even use the official parser if they made one

Once again, you are posting a worst case scenario situation.

The one thing that would make me pause about this was "skip soar."That was a pretty nasty time, and given how much of this game is individual encounters all it would take is one or two to set the playerbase off. Remember people fleeing to Gilg in order to get clears for Creator, too. Then again, I don't trust people in groups much at all; just as individuals they do ok.

Let me ask you this, you do savage? If not, why would it matter to you if parser happens or not? Second, if you do savage, you find out (lets say they did use a parser) and you are a DPS and doing as much as a tank, what would you think then? Is it acceptable doing lower than a tank or as much? or would you think you have to improve?

If you have to use a third party program to get accurate feedback on how you are doing, let alone play the job "correctly" enough to beat raiding content, the game has failed in its design. The whole DPS check thing is crappy game design too, there just to put an artificial, obscured time limit to prevent instances from being overbooked and to punish zombying. As for doing less than a tank, I could tell with no parser, because generally if you try and do less, you are dead incredibly often. You don't do that much less if you try and understand the mechanics. For savage I only started doing it in SB out of sheer boredom, and had O1s and Susano ex clears as healer. I don't bother farming it, because healing neither is like pulling teeth compared to dps and tanking.