They Should Add An Official Damage Meter With One Condition

[Skiros]

No.

https://youtu.be/e_i6mjiGerU?t=260

Maybe they should design fights that actually encourage people to not care as much about efficiency then.

Currently the Savage encounters feel like they're catering 100% to FFLogs parsers who chase efficiency over all else.

Fights where you can safely and smoothly get 100% melee uptime, even in mechanics such as Act 2, when they explicitly designed the AoEs to just so give the player a narrow cone wherein they can be max melee from the boss... feels to me to be catering towards the FFLogs parsers.

Stormblood raid design forced enough downtime that people actually cared much less about parsing then because you would need to adjust a LOT of strats to get that uptime. Right now on P4S the only thing you do different is Act 2 for uptime.

It's best for both worlds back then (minus the LB cheese IMO) because parsing actually felt like another difficulty mode where you intentionally use janky strats or eat more damage to get higher numbers. And because it's not quite possible to get high numbers (99+) consistently during a weekly with downtime strats and without the proper comp back then parsing wasn't such a huge deal.

[Ath192]

Maybe they should design fights that actually encourage people to not care as much about efficiency then.

Currently the Savage encounters feel like they're catering 100% to FFLogs parsers who chase efficiency over all else.

I agree they need to design content with random mechanics that force downtime on random players. That way people won’t be able to validate their scores because obviously players who didn’t have to deal with a certain mechanic forced on them would always do more damage. The goal should be to foster teamwork and clear fights. Not to have fights designed to be giant target dummies you can hit with no downtime if you know where to move at X moment in the fight.