Parsing unfair but okay?

[Casualty]

What I don't get is, how is one supposed to know that FFlogs is even accurate? It's a third party website that relies on information obtained from an addon that you would be banned if you got caught having to begin with, so it's already dubious. For example, I don't have it, but I've found sometimes people have submitted logs of fights I've been involved in. On my highest parse according to FFlogs, a fight where I didn't die, maintained consistent damage output, didn't fail any mechanics, and have full 580 gear materia'd correctly as a SAM, I only did high green parse.

Like, I don't get it. I get fights where I died multiple times but fights where I performed perfectly I'm somehow still doing low parses as one of the highest dps jobs. On one fight, a machinist was the top parser which is absurd. I have to question if, when I'm performing my rotation correctly and consistently, not failing mechanics, and not dying, highly geared and fully materia'd, if I'm STILL registering with medicore parses, if this information is even worth taking seriously. I'm highly geared with the right materia, performed properly, did all the mechanics right, didn't die, and the boss went down and very fast, and that's still not enough according to a third party website to net me high parses.

I literally don't care, and I can't take anyone who does care seriously. If these logs didn't exist I would just assume I did well.

This is exactly a situation where having the information benefits you. You think you are playing perfectly and without error, and without that information you would continue to play the same way until you hit a wall, such a savage fight, and then be frustrated without a clear direction for what the issue is. This may not describe you specifically, but there are players where you are at currently who do have those goals in mind. With the data, you can take that parse through xiv analysis and see what you are missing. For example, here is a fight where you have 0 deaths. https://xivanalysis.com/fflogs/aN8zmyvg6BR4DF1C/1/6 I make no judgements, but it does give some suggestions for areas of opportunity and growth that appear to be consistent across many of the other fights you have participated in. Perhaps you are a person who only does normal trials/raids and has no aspirations for anything more difficult - this information is likely not as relevant outside self-improvement.

If you are skeptical, you could try comparing your battle log to what is being reported (although tedious).