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

[Lambdafish]

When I was a new player I really wanted something to help me measure my damage. As I progressed through levels I just never knew if I was doing well. Parsers certainly could have taught me a lot with regards to my rotations. I feel like this would have been especially true for DoT's which I underestimated and didn't really focus on keeping up. I might have also realized that things like Swiftcast aren't actually a DPS gain unless your spell has a longer cast time than recast time. Parsers can certainly be helpful at every level of gameplay. One might even argue that they would be more helpful at low level than at high level just because a newer player will make larger mistakes which would be more obvious in their DPS numbers.

The number of players who can actually benefit from parsers as a teaching tool is incredibly low. You say that it would have helped you with your rotations, but it's not actually the parser doing that, it is you teaching yourself (presumably on a dummy) by experimenting and theorycrafing and seeing which rotations deal higher damage. The parser isn't actually teaching you how to play your job, it's just giving you a bit of additional information. Wanting to theorycraft is fine and all, but people have already done that extensively and you can find the resources online in job guides and job discussion. As I said, you are the 0.1% and 99.9% of new players would be completely tripped up by a number they shouldn't be looking at at that point in their learning process.