FFXIV Biggest Disease....Parsing

[Rilifane]

Just how many times are the people insisting it's affecting casual content so much experiencing any mention of parsing in casual content?
I'm just genuinely curious here. Is this a DC thing? Is it common on NA DCs? Chaos? JP DCs? Because I rarely see it on Light.

Seriously, I see it so incredibly rarely when doing roulettes, spamming dungeons to level, farming alli raids and even when farming Ex that it sticks out like a sore thumb and I remember it quite clearly. And I'm doing a lot of DF, it's my go-to for leveling classes because I dislike PotD/ HoH/ fate spam.
And I'm not kidding that ever since EW release I haven't encountered a single mention of someone parsing, let alone using it against others, in chat there. Not a single one. The most I've seen was a tank saying that they'll pull smaller with a, and I quote, "sry things died slower than i thought" - which isn't even in the same ball park as mentioning parsers because all that takes is the average attention span of a housefly. And person in LotA asking if the healer is afk or why they are never casting anything and getting a "it's just an alli raid, not here to parse my dude" in return.

But reading through some posts I get the impression it's something people encounter every few duties in a very explicite way.

[IdowhatIwant]

Just how many times are the people insisting it's affecting casual content so much experiencing any mention of parsing in casual content?
I'm just genuinely curious here. Is this a DC thing? Is it common on NA DCs? Chaos? JP DCs? Because I rarely see it on Light.

Seriously, I see it so incredibly rarely when doing roulettes, spamming dungeons to level, farming alli raids and even when farming Ex that it sticks out like a sore thumb and I remember it quite clearly. And I'm doing a lot of DF, it's my go-to for leveling classes because I dislike PotD/ HoH/ fate spam.
And I'm not kidding that ever since EW release I haven't encountered a single mention of someone parsing, let alone using it against others, in chat there. Not a single one. The most I've seen was a tank saying that they'll pull smaller with a, and I quote, "sry things died slower than i thought" - which isn't even in the same ball park as mentioning parsers because all that takes is the average attention span of a housefly. And person in LotA asking if the healer is afk or why they are never casting anything and getting a "it's just an alli raid, not here to parse my dude" in return.

But reading through some posts I get the impression it's something people encounter every few duties in a very explicite way.

Last time I really saw it prominently was Skip Soar or disband in HW after the first WoW exodus. Which it did not surprise me at that time. I just cleared it with 2 tanks so soar didn't matter.

[StriderShinryu]

Just how many times are the people insisting it's affecting casual content so much experiencing any mention of parsing in casual content?
I'm just genuinely curious here. Is this a DC thing? Is it common on NA DCs? Chaos? JP DCs? Because I rarely see it on Light.

Seriously, I see it so incredibly rarely when doing roulettes, spamming dungeons to level, farming alli raids and even when farming Ex that it sticks out like a sore thumb and I remember it quite clearly. And I'm doing a lot of DF, it's my go-to for leveling classes because I dislike PotD/ HoH/ fate spam.
And I'm not kidding that ever since EW release I haven't encountered a single mention of someone parsing, let alone using it against others, in chat there. Not a single one. The most I've seen was a tank saying that they'll pull smaller with a, and I quote, "sry things died slower than i thought" - which isn't even in the same ball park as mentioning parsers because all that takes is the average attention span of a housefly. And person in LotA asking if the healer is afk or why they are never casting anything and getting a "it's just an alli raid, not here to parse my dude" in return.

But reading through some posts I get the impression it's something people encounter every few duties in a very explicite way.

While I don't do higher end content myself, I can't say I've ever seen it come up in the more casual level content that I do (NA, Crystal DC here). Most runs of anything I do are completely smooth. Occasionally you will get a slower group or a clearly less experienced tank/healer but that just means the run is a couple minutes slower at worst. I pretty much never see the absolutely terrible don't know what an AOE is, Ice Mage, dead weight and proud of it player that some people complain about, and I also almost never see the completely toxic, elitist parsing everyone in a levelling roulette caricature either. The vast majority of players are perfectly capable at playing their jobs and don't mind being helpful and stopping to explain something if someone has a question. There's not a ton of random conversation but that's largely just because most people want to get in and do the content, not visit a social club. As is often the case, the forum opinion is not really indicative of actual in game experience.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Just how many times are the people insisting it's affecting casual content so much experiencing any mention of parsing in casual content?
I'm just genuinely curious here. Is this a DC thing? Is it common on NA DCs? Chaos? JP DCs? Because I rarely see it on Light.

Not that I can see aplenty in NA. Then again I've only been in the game for barely 2 years.

I (re)ran a lot of roulette & niche dungeons (BSF/Eureka and their raids), and there were only exactly 3 (THREE) times I saw another player incriminates themselves about the use of parse.

• "Man, you crazy damage RDM! You doing <insert number> DPS Things were melting!" --- some random NIN that I got paired with in Heroes' Gauntlet back in 5.3. They said this after the tank and healer left the duty while I wait for my loot.
• "How is he doing <insert number> DPS?!" --- some random MCH in Delubrum Reginae (Normal). They blurt this in party chat in the middle of Trinity Avowed encounter & this draws the attention of the party to the point they just stop talking altogether.
• "Yo this is parse run?"
  > "Yeah."
  "Count me in bruh." --- said by two particular random GNB and RPR in P1N when I was trying to win my weekly loot. Now this one I took my time after duty completion to report the GNB because everytime somebody did not heed the pull timer or they made 'mistake' they just run toward the wall, demanding a reset. I saw this behavior as a nuisance because I never signed up for a 'parse run' via regular DF queue. If I (probably) want any, I would make or join an existing PF. Then again, I avoid PF like plague so, whatever.

And person in LotA asking if the healer is afk or why they are never casting anything and getting a "it's just an alli raid, not here to parse my dude" in return.

This one however, do come up from time to time. And it's almost always whenever an individual groans or make a comment of how slow a duty was progressing. There's some odds that another player will just jump in to say "Bro chill, who parses <insert duty>?" or some other lines similar to that, it's as if it is a grave sin to make that comment from first place. Personally I had a similar experience just once in Heroes' Gauntlet with a BLM that did not know what they're doing. I've written this story in the older TfDF thread, but long story short:

Me (WAR):"Ah, stuffs are dying very slowly x_x"
BLM:"What's your problem?"
Me (WAR):"...None? I'm just expressing my honest thoughts."