Quote Originally Posted by Forever_Learning View Post
My point wasn’t that they aren’t bad players, my point is providing an explanation for what leads some people to be bad because they focused too much on their DPS. I’m discussing human psychology here rather than anything specific to end-game or a savage fight. When you put a ranking in front of people, and they see where they place, it can impact how a person view’s their performance.
Stating that parsers can make some people overly focused on their DPS isn’t a controversial statement. Furthermore, It doesn’t have to be specific to Final Fantasy, or frankly to video games, when people have a visual assessment in front of them, which also ranks them, it often affects how they behave. I’m not purposely trying to be vague, I’m saying it’s a general human phenomenon.
You aren’t discussing human psychology here. You’re trying to draw a correlation between parsers and tanks not using cooldowns with literally no proof to support your correlation. You’re wanting to blame the parsers for something despite having no evidence to support your stance. Why is that?

My “being vague” comment wasn’t directed towards your argument of “tanks don’t use cooldowns because they want to parse well” (which is still a flimsy argument for you to even have, as you haven’t provided any proof that this is the case). I was asking you to elaborate specifically on how “people change fight encounters to increase their rankings” (with regards to tanks only—since we are talking about tanks and how they supposedly care about high ranks so much that they forego using cooldowns). I’m asking you to provide examples to support your argument. Because, right now, you’re making an argument while providing nothing to support it.

Your concern about the controversialness of your statement is irrelevant here—that’s not what we’re discussing. I’m discussing the manner in which you’re presenting this argument, and what you’ve given as your primary argument (“tanks forego using cooldowns because they care too much about their personal damage”) has no support behind it. At least, you haven’t provided any. Which makes it a poor and weak argument. I’ve asked you about three times to provide evidence for your claim. If you’re so sure that what you’re saying is right, why haven’t you done that yet?