Survey: Community Opinions Regarding Parsing/Parsers in Final Fantasy XIV

[Nedkel]

But you need a parser to see the DPS number O.o

You dont need a parser to play the game.
Its not a necessity to know who is doing what dps.

They can and they will.
But there are other sideeffects from a pure parserfree FFXIV.
Clearrates for Savage will probably go down.
Statweights will be unknown for long periods into the patch cycles if not unknown at all. So gearing would be more like a guessing game.
Job guides will be based more on opinions and feelings instead of facts.

All this won’t change much for the hardcore raiders but midcore and casuals may suffer hard from this.

On tank guides you could see everyone giving an advice to put all efforts into determination/direct hit, instead of Tenacity, because that brings about 2% more dps for the tank, despite tenacity giving 5% damage mitigation and 5% + 5% > 7% dps.
Thats not helping creating a proper guides at all, because community and guides creators focus entirely on tank dps, instead of some useful numbers and stats. Thats some madness, like how much of an impact the 2% would give out of 1-2k dps comparing to 5% mitigation out of 5k incoming damage.