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

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I hope you try to instruct them, lol

A while back, I had a NIN who I told no less than five times to please AoE large pulls. He started using Death Blossom... when we were running to the next pack, not on the actual mobs. When I finally got fed up and trolled him back with a Shirk, he died not to the boss—I actually took back aggro almost immediately, that's how awful his DPS was—he stood in an aoe after being dropped to 1% HP (Kugane last boss). He complained at the healer, calling her trash and called me trash.

Now I know that isn't everyone, or even the majority, but events like that are why people stay quiet. After all, I can't mention their damage because that'll be toxic~

If they do that, you're going to get a bunch of people quit right away. Not because they are bad, but because they don't want to play the game like raiders play the game. The way the game is now the only issue with dps is in savage, and to be blunt it ought to stay that way, because the risk of the game become as un fun as savage (and yes, people surprisingly dont find it fun, its why very few people do or complete it)

If you have a legal parser, you're asking for min-max style raiding to filter down, and the next thing they'll ask for is much harder casual content to force people to actually use the parsers and look up and practice the rotations. That's not going to be a fun game for a lot of people. I watched people struggle with royal menagerie and tusukyomi hard...if the game gets any harder in casual content, you'll start to see people unable to complete it, same as easy ex content.

Honestly, the game is fine casually. If you want a parser in savage and only savage, with the proviso theres a high dps check to be done solo to even get in it, ok. But the game as is, is fine for most people.

Or they actually improve. Shocking, I know, however plenty of people want to improve yet have no idea they're even doing something wrong.

As for the casual content being fine. I am spamming Swallow's Compass right now for Company Seals. The damage is so laughably insignificant, I'm pulling in Deliverance and primarily being healed by Eos. In fact, Excog didn't even break multiple times. That's how little they do. I'll go you one better. Earlier tonight, I got Kefka Normal and everyone except myself (WAR) and the DRK died when Fire III marked players stood on the party. That DRK and I brought Kefka from 18% to 6%. And had I lasted just five seconds longer, we may have killed him since Holmgang and Vengeance were coming up. Yes, I know, I'm a raider, and yes, my WAR is BiS, but that shouldn't be remotely possible. Two tanks with no healers basically solo-ing a supposed raid boss. And you wonder why the community demands healers DPS and tanks sit in DPS stance.

btw, the DRK had mostly 340 or lower. So they weren't a raider.