3rd party tool go brrrrr

[Caitlyn]

If I go Aglaia as DPS and only doing Auto Attacks, no one will know. And no one can prove it. And if they say I m doing not enough damage and/or kick me, I will report them.

FFXIV is not a MMORPG. Its a Solo-RPG where everyone is my personal NPC.

- this is one example why parsers or at least a result screen at the end are neccessary these days.

[Oopsy]

.... They emphasized on the fact that people who already ignore it will continue to ignore it.

Yoship knows that DPS checks are needed and used to weed out people who don't put in effort.

This isn't something you should be talking about.


If you come into hard content, or just playing the game of instances, I do not want someone to go AFK when someone could've been there actually putting in effort.

If you come in, and do so bad, it's as if you are optional and being pressure by taking up a slot, you're making things worse in said content as a hinderance.

I do not like playing a person who's afk/putting minimal effort when it's already easy.

I want to play with a person who puts in equal effort, it's COOP, multiplayer, you play with other people. I have no reason nor do they have a reason to be actively carried as if it's payday, TF2, any moba, F1, etc.

If you don't want to play that game, fine, you can go back and stay fishing, roleplaying, whatever it is if you find playing the game of hitting a glorified striking dummy too hard for you.

Cool, you are all sooo amazing. You can totally beat the hard content by cheating but its impossible without cheating... So cheating should be allowed and you should make fun of people who do not cheat, yet some how still find many ways to enjoy and love the game as it was designed.

[Padudu]

Cool, you are all sooo amazing. You can totally beat the hard content by cheating but its impossible without cheating... So cheating should be allowed and you should make fun of people who do not cheat, yet some how still find many ways to enjoy and love the game as it was designed.

Wow most people like to cover up the fact that they have no idea what they're talking about, brave soul you are for displaying it so blatantly!

[Inanegrain]

Cool, you are all sooo amazing. You can totally beat the hard content by cheating but its impossible without cheating... So cheating should be allowed and you should make fun of people who do not cheat, yet some how still find many ways to enjoy and love the game as it was designed.

You make fun of the PS4/PS5 and some players with missing limbs who have done better than you in FF14, as if it was impossible for them to clear hard content.

When was "cheating" ever mentioned to make fun of people? When is it impossible without "cheating"?

People do not need ACT to figure out if someone's underperforming, they can look at others while yawning to see if they're even in an animation or casting.

[Hitake]

Great community btw.

[WynnDohz]

For some reason, people think that people with the evil barser will call them out for doing 10% or 20% less DPS than they should be.

In reality, pretty much all of the egregious stuff (0dps healer, underpulling tank, not using food in high-end content, not doing mechanics, that kind of stuff) is completely evident without a parser, and is already against the ToS to harass someone over. Considering how many people make it to level 90 without learning those fundamentals, yet aren't getting harassed constantly over it, there's absolutely nothing to worry about.

[MsMisato]

seriously. banning someone for using a party buff timer and a dps meter has got to be one of the dumbest things ive ever heard of. ive used mods like these when i used to play wow a long time ago and all it did was help me become a better player.

Yoshi has warned everyone to keep the third party usage to themselves for years now. He even explicitly stated if you are caught you will be banned. You guys kill me.

[SaberMaxwell]

Yoshi has warned everyone to keep the third party usage to themselves for years now. He even explicitly stated if you are caught you will be banned. You guys kill me.

Why isn't pyromancer banned then? Squares enforcement cannot begin and end at "send a message with an example" otherwise...it's not gonna actually go any way to accomplishing Yoshidas goal of pure first party ffxiv.

[SwingLifeAway]

Tbh you guys should just ignore these types of people.
They contribute absolutely nothing other than their emotional whining and you'll never get them out of their bubble. Either they stop replying or they block you. It's legitimately pointless.

[Akibaws]

So from what I've gathered in the past so many pages is that there's a lalafell who dislikes parsers.

If I wanted to see where I went wrong, or where I could improve I could do;

1) Record it.
2) Read the battle logs myself.
3) Use a parser that removes the information that isn't needed and gives me my performance in an easy to read format.

Don't pretend like people only use parsing to judge others. It's a very good learning tool to better your own performance. Is it needed? No of course it isn't. But is it extremely helpful? Yes. XIVanalysis.com which reads parses has helped me improve my rotation and pick up what mistakes I commonly make.