State of the Game: Personal Player Feedback and Stats on PvE Content [No Parsers Plz]

[Sebazy]

If a player does expert today and gets rank a but tomorrow only gets a rank c despite thinking he's played the same.

In honesty, if it even just gets that person thinking about what might have gone wrong to cause that drop in rank then that's a big win in my book as that's precisely what I'm gunning for. I don't want to bury people in metrics, I don't want to make people feel bad, I just want people to think a little more about their performance in duties and maybe take a little more pride in it where possible. The first step towards that is some super simple feedback that simply states 'hey, you did good' or 'hey, please try a bit harder', as currently this is something that the game is lacking in unless you parse or clock watch.

Regarding your other points, again, I can't stress it enough, my vision at least isn't meant to be an alternative to parsing for PS4 players, not even close. That's completely missing what I'm aiming for. I'm not talking about having ranks that are akin to gold/orange etc in fflogs where a few hundred DPS can make the difference between a 95%+ or barely breaking 80%. If someone can go between a A and C grade without anything going wrong on their part, then the ranks are set up much too narrow.

The system is useless. May as well just be rng. Roll a dice Today you get a b..

I don't buy it, sorry. My variance as a RDM between good and bad groups is somewhere between 5.3k and 4.7k in swallows compass, granted a portion of that is potentially my own mistakes as well. As WHM, it's actually a lot narrower with groups needing to be especially bad to the point of completely running me out of cooldowns and MP. The only thing that really seems to impact me is a tank losing control of a pull. Again, I'm not talking FFlogs here. If we said that my 5.3k was a perfect 100, then I'd consider an A to be within 70-80% of that, B to be within 50-60% of that and so forth. Steps big enough that an extra large pull or the opposite aren't going to destroy your rank.

Even ACT isn't accurate.

Mentioning this in the same breath as ACT is entirely missing the point. This is not meant to be that. Stop thinking fflogs percentiles and start thinking 3 star scores in angry birds