Stop the WoWificaton (ui mods)

[Grebeny]

And yet, most games do a far better job of at least giving you some idea of how much you are doing so you can try and figure it out yourself. Precise timestamps, verbose and clear damage feedback, the ability to not have multiple sources of damage merged into one figure etc. WoW had all of these. FFXIV didn't. Go watch a 2.x-3.x SMN PoV and point out where they can keep a tabs on their dot damage. Spoiler: They couldn't

Spoiler, you don't need to, the system was easy "if skill with Cooldown is not pressed, you do bad job" too hard for you?

The ToS is also equally clear on calling people muppets FYI. Your point?

Muppets is fluffy, not offence, and we play FF, most of the people are fluffy around.

This is being brought up in a UI thread because of Ultimate shenanigans in a fight that a tiny minority will ever clear regardless of how much handholding is given.

- Allows you to see player hitbox
- Can automatically find and relay hunt mobs
- Condenses combos to one button
- Allows macros to be daisy-chained
- Allows mouseover targeting without macro delay
- Gives player realtime information about mobs in PoTD
- Shows different damage types visually (magic/physical))
- PvP auto targeting of Ninja when LB is done.
- Auto heal when someone HP droppes bellow given %.
- Auto targeting enemies bellow 50% and auto LB on them with ninja.

And yes, bots are bannable, they are getting banned all of the time, the difference is nobody stand up for them as a white knight pretending they don't understand the ToS to protect them.

Again, go look at SMN in ARR and tell me you could optimise that.

Especially when DPS metters don't actually provite perfect information on the matter too. The DPS you provide to the party with your personal buffs is really poorly calculated, how do you sleep with this information?

Savage doesn't even come close to the the complexity and precision that this Ultimate

Actually savages and Ultimates are not that different on difficulty if we are talking about DPS specifically. Ultimates are hard because you need to survive 15+ minutes without doing mistakes.

Or maybe SE could actually spend some of the 200 mill earnings to actually improve their UI

Lazy players will go to DPS metter always even after "improving" the 100% customizable UI. If you want "basic" feedback, just turn on only your numbers on enemy hit. Players were not feeling obligated to use addons, but as someone earlier said, when some start using it, others follow. "World first race" grouos on first day were not using logs, except few. In the next days more and more started, because Yes, exactly, ADVANTAGE. There are party finders with "logs" in the name, suggesting that they will not take players without DPS metter installed.

[Sebazy]

Spoiler, you don't need to, the system was easy "if skill with Cooldown is not pressed, you do bad job" too hard for you?

You're missing the point. ARR SMN literally had no idea of their damage. Were they worth bringing vs another BRD or even a Melee? You couldn't tell. They were flying blind in actual content especially given so much of it was multi target back then.

Muppets is fluffy, not offence, and we play FF, most of the people are fluffy around.

Pop into British Walkabout and call a few people muppets, let me know how that goes for you.

- Allows you to see player hitbox
- Can automatically find and relay hunt mobs
- Condenses combos to one button
- Allows macros to be daisy-chained
- Allows mouseover targeting without macro delay
- Gives player realtime information about mobs in PoTD
- Shows different damage types visually (magic/physical))
- PvP auto targeting of Ninja when LB is done.
- Auto heal when someone HP droppes bellow given %.
- Auto targeting enemies bellow 50% and auto LB on them with ninja.

And yes, bots are bannable, they are getting banned all of the time, the difference is nobody stand up for them as a white knight pretending they don't understand the ToS to protect them.

On the list, precisely, all of those things are far far more impactful on the game as a whole than the number of groups that are going to clear DSR and wave around a few shiny weapons this year. On bots being bannable, eeehhhhh I mean sure but outside of RMT spam who actually really gets banned for it? Look at Eureka bots or go right as far back as Northern Thanalan Fate bots. Are they really getting banned all the time? I don't see it, never have.

Especially when DPS metters don't actually provite perfect information on the matter too. The DPS you provide to the party with your personal buffs is really poorly calculated, how do you sleep with this information?

Doesn't matter if it's imperfect when it's the only readily available info sir. As for really poorly calculated? Please cite your sources on that one.

Actually savages and Ultimates are not that different on difficulty if we are talking about DPS specifically. Ultimates are hard because you need to survive 15+ minutes without doing mistakes.

Sure, I'm in agreement that Ultimates aren't about the DPS checks, but they are still a sterner test of things than Savage even with the trend of untargetable intermissions.

Lazy players will go to DPS metter always even after "improving" the 100% customizable UI. If you want "basic" feedback, just turn on only your numbers on enemy hit. Players were not feeling obligated to use addons, but as someone earlier said, when some start using it, others follow. "World first race" grouos on first day were not using logs, except few. In the next days more and more started, because Yes, exactly, ADVANTAGE. There are party finders with "logs" in the name, suggesting that they will not take players without DPS metter installed.

If you think day one groups weren't using act you are sorely mistaken lol.

And basic feedback isn't very useful when a good portion of the data is either missing or unreadable. Simply knowing how big your crits can get isn't really the whole story.

[Grebeny]

You're missing the point. ARR SMN literally had no idea of their damage. Were they worth bringing vs another BRD or even a Melee? You couldn't tell. They were flying blind in actual content especially given so much of it was multi target back then.

You litterally don't need your exact number to know if you perform well. You just need to know you do your job well and again, dummy if needed "Stone, Sky, Sea" if really concerned. Simple as that.

Are they really getting banned all the time?

As far as I am aware they ban them in batch from time to time, so you are right here, they don't do it all the time unfortunately.

Doesn't matter if it's imperfect when it's the only readily available info sir. As for really poorly calculated? Please cite your sources on that one.

The writter's own claim? Not good enough for you? Maybe you know how well it works better from the people that write the tool, I don't know... You can send me video of you playing without DPS meter, or even battle logs on the screen, I will tell you how good/bad you perform and if I am wrong, we agree that you don't get any info except your meter.

But let me explain you how you ACT works (obviously you have no idea). It takes the info from the logs and use formulas to simulate expected behavior, for example the dots of the summoner were entirely simulated in the meter, so their accuracy may be pretty good sometimes and totally on another planet other times. Same goes with buffs/debuffs, There is no info like "dragoon did 10 000dmg +1 000 trick attack dmg. All of this info is simulated by the ACT too. If you care about your personal performance, I will say it again, if you want to perform well, simple math (with no numbers involved)
Resource overcap = bad performance
CD stay unused = bad performance
Use weak abilities when you have stronger options = bad performance
OGCD skills in GCD window = bad, just don't.
Avoid the four mistakes I just said, you are ma' man, I don't need numbers to know it!!!

Things that ACT have no idea of, but they actually improve performance of players quite a lot are proper usage of Feint (many people claim you should eat food for survivabily instead of using this really cool skill), bloodbath, second wind, shade shift, revives from red mages and the list goes on and on. Because wasting time of healers to heal you, or tanks to give you extra def is wasting the party's overall dps for the sake of you're missunderstanding of how the game works, just because you can't read tool tips, but just dps meter...

If you think day one groups weren't using act you are sorely mistaken lol.

As I said, less groups were using it day one, more were using it day two, same for other addons too (that I believe are more likely to be the reason SE are angry).

[Menriq]

The writter's own claim? Not good enough for you? Maybe you know how well it works better from the people that write the tool, I don't know... You can send me video of you playing without DPS meter, or even battle logs on the screen, I will tell you how good/bad you perform and if I am wrong, we agree that you don't get any info except your meter.

No offense, but I'm not sure you are the best judge of how good or bad someone is playing.

[ForteNightshade]

And yes, bots are bannable, they are getting banned all of the time, the difference is nobody stand up for them as a white knight pretending they don't understand the ToS to protect them.

Ahahahahaha

The fact you may actually believe this is incredible. They aren't banning anything significant. RMT bots are remade within the hour. Player controlled bots that infect the Market Board, Gather bots and PvP have been doing so unabated for years now. I can even point to several on my own server who hasn't been touched even after I saw them botting firsthand.

No offense, but I'm not sure you are the best judge of how good or bad someone is playing.

Suffice it to say, if you know where to look. No, no they absolutely are not in any position to judge anyone.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

..Cringeworthy at best. I can already feel the upcoming second hand embarrassment.