Quote Originally Posted by RiyahArp View Post
No, they aren't. Discord doesn't do anything compared to an actual connection with an actual player on your own server. If anything discords in general have a bad rep for being houses of drama, precisely because its just randoms with no real connection to keep them civil.
I’m curious as to why you would have to have someone actually on your server to mentor you. Why do you think that a mentor has to be on a mentee’s server to offer them advice or assistance?

Quote Originally Posted by RiyahArp View Post
There's already widespread parser availability if you do savage. Just ask the group. Making it official changes nothing, because no one is forced to use it. There's a small amount of ps4 players who can't, but if they care they ask friends who do.
The issue with “just ask the party” is that you can never be sure that you won’t get that one person who reports just because you post numbers, even if others were asking because they wanted to know where they stood, and numbers were posted with nothing more (i.e., no comments made about them, positive or negative). There have been a few posters in parser debates past that have blatantly admitted that they frequently report people who they even suspect are parsing. A lot of people do not share that they are because of those who would just report willy-nilly.

If you think raiders are nice helpful people when the reality is they are nice up to the second run and kick after, you're not going to be able to ask for effective changes.
I’m sure that you’ve heard of Xenosys Vex. He frequently jumps into parties just to run Savage with them. I was once in an A9S clear group (I had joined because I was dipping into Savage, and I had cleared but was still uncertain of the mechanics), and he was helping the WAR in the group (he was on DRK) learn how to tank the fight. And we were in there for quite some time, not just 2 pulls. He also joined a weekly 2 chest for Neo back when I was with my static in Deltascape, and we had several pulls with lots of sloppiness and dying. He never once said anything bad to us in the chat, and he didn’t leave until we had secured the clear.

Sure, not everyone is going to be like that, and yes, a lot of people get frustrated. I can be one of those people (though that’s mostly when I join farm groups advertised as “fast clears, high DPS” and they end up being a phase one wipe-fest), but when I join learning parties, I generally stay until the group disbands. Even if they are extremely sloppy. I haven’t had much mind to do that lately, but I did it a lot for the HW Extremes.

You're going to be really disappointed when the official parser comes and you still get people doing 4k dps, because you really want people to git gud and they have to be forced to, not coaxed to.
I know that you cannot force players to get better, nor can you force them to care about doing so. That doesn’t mean I’m not going to tell people that there is always room for improvement, regardless of if they are purple, blue, green, or grey. I can’t control their desire for improvement, but I can certainly state that there is always an opportunity to. I just urge those players to not try and jump into harder content if they cannot commit the time and dedication to improving themselves for it.