Letter to MR Yoshi: Why parses system is destroying the ffxiv world.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

It may not be a popular fact, but using any tool to reveal information that is not provided by the game, to your advantage, is cheating.

By this backwards logic, all guides and information shared via reddit/discord is cheating. If I have a Prima strategy guide for FFX, I have cheated. Your bias definition of cheating is not absolute.

Nothing "appears" to be braindead easy, it is. No one runs a parse or call outs for Normal mode raids. They blitz through them lightning fast because the content is trivial. You may find Phantom Train difficulty, but you also stand around taking an eternity to cast even a single heal. If the devs could delete parsers and logs tomorrow, the difficulty of 4.4 isn't going to magically increase. Dungeon bosses aren't going to magically hit for 40k+ when they scarcely broke 20k earlier. You keep insisting parsers are to blame for everything despite it making literally no sense. The difficulty of Stormblood has been brought down considerably so people can be more easily carried through content, thus they stop complaining "it's too hard!!!!!"

If parsers were to blame for that, why did nothing in ARR hurt nearly to the extent of Gordias and Midas? None of them existed yet the hardest tiers only came when casual players saw raiders clear Coil in less than a week and assume "well, they must be super easy then!"

We do play the content normally. Unfortunately, at every level below Savage, it's a complete joke. Come 4.4, I will wall-to-wall pull The Burn in i370 gear day one, and likely take minimal damage. Just like virtually every other dungeon released in Stormblood at 70. I suppose that's the dreaded parsers fault.