Parsers add replayability for casual players

[Liam_Harper]

I come from WoW, the number of times I see something on the lines of "LF (insert class here), 350k DPS minimum!" for something that only 250k could EASILY clear for is astronomical. It's on the same vein as ilvl 400 minimum for ilvl 350 content. Parsers breed elitism within the game's community.

Why is this elitist? I saw those groups all the time in WoW, but there were plenty of groups that weren't fussy or for learning. I had no problem raiding via PF in WoW and I wasn't a great player. In the same way in ff14, why is 400ilv requirement for 350 content elitist when there are abundant Practice and progression groups and you're free to make your own group? Decent players wanting to play with other decent players is perfectly normal. They already beat the content, they just want to farm and can play with whoever they like.

I see it more as entitlement. Players don't want to form their own Practice groups, they don't want to work hard to progress and earn that clear. They want into the good players group for a carry. And somehow the good player is the bad guy here.

Like a personal dps meter for example is a useless tool.

Why. Because while such a tool may indicate you are improving it cannot indicate where you are in terms of potential or where you should be..

To give an example. I use act mainly for curiosity and testing if this is better than that but I don't use it as a comparison tool because it doesn't work as such.

There are a couple of diamond weapon parses uploaded to fflogs for example that indicate my samurai is in the 39th percentile. But thats meaningless as well.

My samurai at that time was i513 with an I515 weapon.. this then doesn't mean 61% of samurai are better than me. Or anytbing like that. All it likely means is many of them have far better gear..

Take it a step further.

Open that 39th percentile log. Copy the link and pop it into xivanalysis.com. Now you have a fully indepth view of everything on that fight, your uptime, cooldown usage, rotational mistakes, resources lost and so on. Then check the top logs for Samurai on Diamond and copy one into xiva. Compare it with your own log. Now you have your current level and the potential if you mastered the class, along with every detail to improve on. You'll find meters can be very valuable to self-improvement.