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

[Vstarstruck]

Back at you^^

I do admit, I was questioning if I should of deleted it after I wrote that.

I'm not big on writing long posts, for one, and I don't know if I can't write it any clearer without losing my original point or overexplaining it. tldr; WYSIWYG

You just did it again though

[Lambdafish]

You just did it again though

Their point isn't that difficult to decipher. They are saying that people should be focusing on learning the basics of the job during the MSQ and trying to max out DPS actually hinders that learning. You don't try to learn how to drive a 16 wheeler before learning how to drive in general.

As a real example that I encountered, a few raid cycles ago, some of my raid members really struggled because they were using a parser. Rather than taking their time to properly learn the mechanics, they would be so focused on their parse number and damage output (unnecessarily, we were way ahead of the DPS check) that we would wipe to mechanics because of it. The solution my raid leader came up with was to ban the DPS from using their own parser (the raid leader still had one running) so that they would only focus on the mechanics, and that solved the problem.

Parsers are fine, but I do agree with KaivaC that I think player quality would actually decrease if parsers were encouraged in MSQ levelling content.