State of the Game: Savage+ Dungeons and End Game Leves

[KaivaC]

Being kicked by raiders once, is one time too many. You and others wonder why I have such a axe to grind against parser users, the first and only time I was kicked without any communication at all from any party, in 2.5 both DPS players had fflogs in their lodestone profiles,which is what made me aware of that sites existence. This was on The Keeper of the Lake during Expert roulette, which up to that point I had cleared plenty of times, and even with a party with a tank who was wearing DPS gear. I'm willing to roll with what I get on DF, the raiders should not be kicking players for "play style" differences, especially not from dungeon content. The impression I get from the forum raiders is that they check players lodestones and fflogs and kick players just to improve their own parses.

What makes you think I would ever want to play with a parser user after that? No doubt I've played with people who were parsing everything because they're concerned about their ranking on that site, but I don't want to hear it. It is cheating, it violates the ToS, so I'm objectively right. If SE's unwritten policy is to ignore parser users, then they are just going to have an arms race escalation between players building tools that reveal more invisible information from the game until someone crosses a line. That FFXIV ACT plugin is also the basis for the radar tools and callout automations, and even that cactbot plugin has the entire combat script for everything, and is used to reveal anything that the game client is told in advance for.

Wait....wait, wait, wait, hold the phone. So you are telling everybody that all this blind hatred, all these rants and raves, all this frustration that you have for the raid community and parsers...all of this anger that you have been showing towards the raiders was because of what?

You got kicked one time years ago in Keeper of the Lake?

I am pretty positive that a huge portion of us who have raided have gotten kicked from parties at least once over asinine reasons, DPS or lack thereof included. Quit generalizing the raid community over something so petty. I'm sorry, but yes, this is incredibly petty of you. One time? One time is not enough to generalize an entire subset of a community. Not especially from one dungeon - not from two bad apples.