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

[Granyala]

Frankly speaking, we live in an age where informations go ramparts, if ppl won't spend a few minutes to better understand the job they are playing in any way, that's on them I say.

It's a videogame, not university. Few people out there are in the habit of hunting for information and learning for themselves. As such, I believe the game itself should contain all the necessary information to play correctly. And still, you will find people not willing to read 3 lines in a tooltip. It can't be helped, not everyone takes a game seriously enough to want to play well.

I'd like everyone opposed to answer this question not pick and choose little bits to strawman. In regards to me having a personal parser, that I can see built into my hud for fights, what about that offends you or bothers you. Why can't I have it? Maybe if nothing else whIle I'm running the same roulette dungeons every day I want to beat my Previous skills so tell me why my personal parser is such a bother to you

I would never want a parser in my hud. Combat log analysis is done AFTER the fight. Watching it during the fight is waay too much of a distraction and has no benefit at all.

I'm very pro-parser and can give you an answer to that. Having a parser is your choice, but parsers promote poor play if you don't already have the fundamental skill to play the game

Agreed. People focus WAY too much on on that single tiny DPS number, when a parsing combat data has so much more to offer.
Taking unnecessary risks, as you said, and to the point of meter padding.
How often had I people waste precious GCDs on a mob that didn't need to be DPSed on due to encounter mechanics while the mob that had to die ASAP lived longer in WoW? I lost count. <_<