Solo fight to unlock savage tier

[Ransu]

Lots of folks use Target dummies in the open world or housing districts.

That's such a waste. SSS literally resets your CD's. Why wait for 2 min CD's when you can just re-enter SSS to practice?

[Syln]

I've actually never done this but isn't this just attacking a target dummy with 0 mechanics?

Yup now imagine failing at that and still trying to go into savage.

[LittleImp]

That's such a waste. SSS literally resets your CD's. Why wait for 2 min CD's when you can just re-enter SSS to practice?

SSS combat duration is too short for the types of things I use dummies for, personally.

[angienessyo]

I'd be fine with it provided the encounter is balanced in a fair way for each DPS. Sometimes the SSS dummies are easier for other jobs. For example, the first savage tier of Shb, the NIN SSS was notoriously difficult to clear until the NIN rework, but it was a cake walk for other jobs to clear it. Also I use SSS specifically to practice my opener as it's an easy way to quickly memorize a new one.

[Fendred]

But they are in the game. FFlogs has countless thousand parses. Nearly every Savage group has multiple people with one. The devs have been very clear they'll never scan your computer for third party software.

The only people who don't have access to meters are console users and new players who don't realize they exist.

I really hope the dev team encrypts the files targeted by Advanced Combat Tracker so combat logs cannot be intercepted and therefore never posted to a 3rd party website ever again. I've never consented to having my logs posted, yet I showed up there a couple of times. I've named changed/fantasia just to escape that madness.

[LittleImp]

I really hope the dev team encrypts the files targeted by Advanced Combat Tracker so combat logs cannot be intercepted and therefore never posted to a 3rd party website ever again. I've never consented to having my logs posted, yet I showed up there a couple of times. I've named changed/fantasia just to escape that madness.

They never will. Even if they managed to obfuscate some of it, the text from the combat log could always be parsed manually to determine things like DPS. Yoshida himself has recognized that one could essentially parse the combat log using a program like Excel, and for such reasons its kind of a pointless venture to try to shut it down.

Your aversion to logs is kind of funny to be honest. Log-checking people typically helps to mitigate the exact situation you're proposing a solo-duty to fix. Logs are heavily utilized as a way to weed out poor candidates without wasting time trialing people who aren't prepared.

Also, FFLogs provides a way to hide your logs from the site for those concerned with privacy. You just need to add a short phrase to your lodestone bio.

[Insertusernamehere]

I think SE will not put a dps check for savage.

I only run savage with static team, friends mostly and if something wrong with rotation (parse tools useful for figure out whats going wrong), mechanics etc.. we can always talk on discord for fixing problem.
At SHB I did runs with random teams it was not a pleasant experience, very time consuming. I will rather prefer stop raiding instead of doing it random teams.

[HyoMinPark]

I really hope the dev team encrypts the files targeted by Advanced Combat Tracker so combat logs cannot be intercepted and therefore never posted to a 3rd party website ever again. I've never consented to having my logs posted, yet I showed up there a couple of times. I've named changed/fantasia just to escape that madness.

It doesn’t matter if you consented or not. The data isn’t owned by you. That said, you can hide your logs. Just know that others take that as a bad sign, so you might experience the gatekeeping you’re basically asking for in this thread.

[Fendred]

They never will. Even if they managed to obfuscate some of it, the text from the combat log could always be parsed manually to determine things like DPS. Yoshida himself has recognized that one could essentially parse the combat log using a program like Excel, and for such reasons its kind of a pointless venture to try to shut it down.

Your aversion to logs is kind of funny to be honest. Log-checking people typically helps to mitigate the exact situation you're proposing a solo-duty to fix. Logs are heavily utilized as a way to weed out poor candidates without wasting time trialing people who aren't prepared.

Also, FFLogs provides a way to hide your logs from the site for those concerned with privacy. You just need to add a short phrase to your lodestone bio.

1. It does not let you weed out underperformers because a parse is stale data.
2. Apparently, according to your own post people have to actively opt out of it when the opt out should be automatic. I didn't even know that, but thanks for giving me another reason to hate DPS parsing.

[Fendred]

It doesn’t matter if you consented or not. The data isn’t owned by you. That said, you can hide your logs. Just know that others take that as a bad sign, so you might experience the gatekeeping you’re basically asking for in this thread.

Not even remotely the same thing. You're comparing a solo encounter designed to help someone learn how to play to someone saying you can't join static A because they saw a blue moon parse from 5 months ago of you on an EX fight. BTW, you were sick with the flu. Also five months ago.