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

[Grimr]

My two cents. I came from Wow about 2 years ago to ff14 and i haven't looked back. FF works because its devs know to address imbalance issue not ignore them like blizzard does on a regular basis. Having said that, putting parser or dps check in game causes more problems than it solves. It will simply lead to a community as toxic as WoW or worse. FF does not need that. I have said this many times Yoshida needs to take little to no influence from WoW. It has had it's time in the sun; no more.

[Jijifli]

My two cents. I came from Wow about 2 years ago to ff14 and i haven't looked back. FF works because its devs know to address imbalance issue not ignore them like blizzard does on a regular basis. Having said that, putting parser or dps check in game causes more problems than it solves. It will simply lead to a community as toxic as WoW or worse. FF does not need that. I have said this many times Yoshida needs to take little to no influence from WoW. It has had it's time in the sun; no more.

I used to play wow, let me tell you, as someone who used recount, I was trash at later levels.

Like, extreme trash. Like if you took my WoW performance instead of FFXIV performance into Lacksmi I'd manage to kill everyone with her bossom somehow, even the people with Vril. I was this prove to messing it all up.

NOBODY cared though, because I stayed out of raids. Nobody gave a care in the dungeon because things still died. The only time I've ever been yelled at is in low level dungeons where some people expect world fists. Nobody cared in heroics though. And based on what I've been seeing for mythic, only Mythic 0 has this toxicity issue.

Also, I LOVE how we're using WoW every time about parsers like it's the only game ever to have anything related to it. All the ACT thing does we use in FF is take the info in your battle log and make it nice and neat. If I truly wanted to, I could go through the battle log and find out your exact dps, crit chance, direct hit chance, what hit you, etc. Why would I go through all that though with how messy it is if a system does it for me in real time? The info is ALREADY in the game.

If you don't believe me, get rid of your battle log. ACT won't work from there.