We Really Need To Talk About The State And Path Of FFXIV

[HyoMinPark]

Calling "losing less than 5% of your personal DPS" gimping is still the same overreaction everybody has. Basically, if you don't have a parser, you won't even notice...

It doesn’t change that the difference is still there. In a raid setting, which we were talking about a raid setting, you will be hard pressed to not find at least 1 individual parsing. Usually there are more than just one, and a lot of raiders do care about things like damage. There’s a reason people that enjoy optimization follow BiS and practice optimal rotations and align their damage buffs for bursts. As for the “losing less than 5% of your personal DPS”... well BRD/MCH loses 5% simply by not having a DRG, and we all know how much they dislike that. People care: about damage, about substats, about whether or not they’re being gimped; just because you may not doesn’t change that.

People are more than welcome to gimp themselves if they so please. I don’t understand it, but I don’t control them. However, they will be suboptimal and there is no other way to argue that. Just like advocating for STR on a RDM is wrong and suboptimal, advocating a pure Skill Speed build on a job like MCH is also wrong and suboptimal. People can do whatever, but don’t advocate that what you’re (general) doing is revolutionary.

[Hamada]

Calling "losing less than 5% of your personal DPS" gimping is still the same overreaction everybody has. Basically, if you don't have a parser, you won't even notice...

Funny how you should say that. I do runs with my GF and the last expert we did she was left confused. The bard appeared doing good rotations (rare) but the expert was flowing slower then it should of been with someone playing like that. She checked the gear and that is exactly what the issue was, a bit lower ilevel then you typically see now a days in expert + wrong melds. So you are wrong on that front, people can notice without parsers.

So try again? Also take a look what bourne and hyo are saying. If you are going to meld at all why not do it correctly in the scope of best? Not doing so is simply doing this: