Please add damage meters, Yoshi P.

[Shurrikhan]

That you would dismiss out of hand the very valid fact that parsers ENABLE toxic behaviour...

Because they don't. They do not enable anything (or anyone) save perhaps (those who prefer) learning by doing and checking the results rather than by attempting to follow guides on blind trust.

I am yet to see someone run over in the middle of the road carrying a desktop PC.

Again, you're arguing anachronistically. One can blame cell phones for our whole degree of reduced face-to-face interaction only by having (purposely, more likely than not) forgotten what books, computers, and godsdamned human nature already contributed.

As for your quip about screen-staring pedestrians, you realize they said the same thing about paperbacks initially? That they'd be the death of people just because, without sufficient bulk and weight, one could do other things while reading -- imagine, someone walking while their attention is thus booked! And before that the fear was people becoming *gasp* too enraptured in conversation.

[VelKallor]

Because they don't. They do not enable anything (or anyone) save perhaps (those who prefer) learning by doing and checking the results rather than by attempting to follow guides on blind trust.

Im sorry Shurrikhan...theres your opinion, and theres the overwhelming evidence that says otherwise. Yoshi has expounded REPEATEDLY as to why he has taken this stance, how or why this doesnt persuade you, I dont know.

Ill take his opinion and expertise over yours , anytime.

On this, with respect, we agree to diametrically disagree.

[george357]

they need to stop necrobumping this dead topic.

[Zebraoracle]

they need to stop necrobumping this dead topic.

Bruh it's not dead if people are still talking. Learn what necrobumping is, you keep using it for threads that have active discussion in them.

[Shurrikhan]

Bruh it's not dead if people are still talking. Learn what necrobumping is, you keep using it for threads that have active discussion in them.

To be fair, if he finally posted that on a thread where his use of the word were appropriate, he'd probably also be the (nearly the) sole culprit of said necrobumping, since it'd actually have been dead (and take more than just his perusing the New Posts page).

[FireMage]

I have played the new WoW Dragonflight addon over the christmas holidays and were also in many Mythic+ Dungeons and also the Raid. I have rarely experienced such a toxic and unfriendly community.

The players were only looking into there different mod and addons (DPS Meter, Boss Mods, Mythic+ Tools ....) and when a player is not good enough, the group members gets in rage. I had it many, many times, that others or I were kicked from the group during the dungeon because we made less damage for the rest of the group members or the group was disbanded after the first death or when the run was too slow. At the end, I was very frustrated about the group behaviour in WoW and stopped playing dungeons and the raid at all.

In the meantime, I didn't renew my subscription for WoW and I don't want to experience such a community (only focused on numbers and in rage) anymore. That's why I'm against such tools in FFXIV and it would be a reason to cancel my subscription also in FFXIV.

So you were a burden and were removed. This is a GOOD thing that happened. Use your dismissal to learn to not be a bad

[Shurrikhan]

I have played the new WoW Dragonflight addon over the christmas holidays and were also in many Mythic+ Dungeons and also the Raid. I have rarely experienced such a toxic and unfriendly community.

The players were only looking into there different mod and addons (DPS Meter, Boss Mods, Mythic+ Tools ....) and when a player is not good enough, the group members gets in rage. I had it many, many times, that others or I were kicked from the group during the dungeon because we made less damage for the rest of the group members or the group was disbanded after the first death or when the run was too slow. At the end, I was very frustrated about the group behaviour in WoW and stopped playing dungeons and the raid at all.

In the meantime, I didn't renew my subscription for WoW and I don't want to experience such a community (only focused on numbers and in rage) anymore. That's why I'm against such tools in FFXIV and it would be a reason to cancel my subscription also in FFXIV.

So you were a burden and were removed. This is a GOOD thing that happened. Use your dismissal to learn to not be a bad

@Mihari

Don't mind Firemage. If you're new to M+, there are a couple ways to pretty quickly make things easier for yourself.

The smaller but steadier path is to spend a little more time in deliberate practice before moving up the levels. That may first mean practicing your ST, cleave, and AoE rotations, but also just getting into the habits of your ABCs, baiting out AoEs slightly, being able to guess where your tank will move to, interrupting/deflecting/feigning mechanics, integrating utility where productive, etc. If you have some friends, but too few for a full party, purposely undermanning some M0s can also be great just to get into the hang of everything. Alternatively, just consider that you needn't rush up the key levels. You're already going to have joined the season too late to join up with single-class tryhards (and you probably wouldn't want to anyways), but alt-gearing is evergreen, so even if it's your first character progressing late, there should be plenty of people to join.

The only potential problem you might face at these lower key levels is that as you're no longer right at the start at of the expansion, it's a bit like joining a particular Savage tier late, wherein there are additional expectations even among first clear parties and parties will naturally be skewed towards not only towards those who are new to M+ on their characters, but also to either those who are especially slow to improve (that "ELO hell" equivalent) or have already progressed far on other characters. That meeting of those two sides, between veterans just gearing up an alt and those who have never gotten past a lv7 (out of some 25+ difficulty levels) even after years can lead to some turbulence, to say the least. Sometimes a lv10 can be legitimately easier than a lv8 just because some players who aren't comfortable using utility, minding their step, or doing other little bits and tricks to help out the party are also the sort to feel disproportionately intimidated by that jump going into lv10 and higher keys.

The second, and probably more significant, is simply to find some M+ friends. They can help you to find where you can improve and how, can give you a steadier, friendlier, lower-stress context for that learning, and make both that learning and the gameplay itself more enjoyable. Personally, I've mostly just PuGed because I usually find most people plenty nice anyways and I'll often be invited or invite others to further consecutive runs if things went especially well, but there's always a risk of sour grapes.

Probably all irrelevant if poor luck has already irredeemably ruined that game for you (had a similar enough experience with Apex Legends despite finding it otherwise a really good game and actually even watching a few tournaments, so I more than get that), but... if you ever get the itch for any of its classes / dragonriding again, those are probably the two biggest things. Alternatively, if you're on the NA side (though I may have to check how the data center/battlegroups are set up?), I could shoot you an invite if you want any in-game pointers.

[VelKallor]

Again, you're arguing anachronistically. One can blame cell phones for our whole degree of reduced face-to-face interaction only by having (purposely, more likely than not) forgotten what books, computers, and godsdamned human nature already contributed.

Matter of fact, you can go talk to Ray Bradbury, who PREDICTED this decades ago. Fahrenheit 451.

Read the book. Montag lives.

Then go read Toffler. Future Shock.

I recently went back and read both of them...how they knew what was coming is still unbelievable.

Personally, I have yet to see that but thrice in the last 6 years of running M+

You will forgive me if I treat this comment with a grain of salt the size of the Titanic.

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/mythic-plus-toxicity-is-caused-by-blizzards-game-design-choices/869612\

The toxicity of mythic plus needs to be adressed quickly, as an influx of players will want to re-engage with the content come 9.0.5. If blizzard fails to adress the current toxic environement of mythic plus, the valor system will only make things worse. People will feel even more invested in their key, and will lash out worse when failures happen.

I go back to my earlier stance...you never saw it happen so it didnt happen

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/how-to-solve-m-toxicity/878501

I enjoy the concept of the challenge that m+ potentially brings to players and the potential rewards for doing keys in time, but the absolute abhorrent behavior that I’ve had directed at me or seen directed at others makes the whole experience unenjoyable even when nothing happens. It’s become so common of an occurrence that there’s this invisible pressure even in silent groups that it sours the whole thing for me. What can blizzard do to make m+ appear less like the average game of blind pick in league of legends

https://www.dexerto.com/world-of-warcraft/wow-players-urge-blizzard-combat-toxicity-instead-censoring-game-content-1662472/

“Blizzard should do something about toxic player behavior instead of censoring paintings and turning them into fruit bowls,” writes one Reddit user, referring to the decision to change an in-game artwork of a semi-clad woman into a collection of pears. “Being told to kill myself over a mistake or a petty disagreement is not okay at all.”

But yeah, you;re right, they are making it all up............................

[Shurrikhan]

Matter of fact, you can go talk to Ray Bradbury, who PREDICTED this decades ago. Fahrenheit 451.

Read the book. Montag lives.

Then go read Toffler. Future Shock.

I recently went back and read both of them...how they knew what was coming is still unbelievable.

Which topic are you even on at this point? Is it still just "calculators are toxic" or are we into "machined arithmetic = Big Brother" territory?

Something being able to do addition for you is not grounds for Toffler's "information overload." Nor is it a dystopian scenario based largely on a purging of information as within 451.

[Saraide]

Still pretending introduction of a parser would suddenly remove all TOS I see. The reason ff14 is so tame is because the enforcement of moderation is so heavy. That's legit the reason. There is no reason to believe this would change.

Vel, what do you think would happen if I was to pop off on a dude who failed a mechanic? Why do you pretend so hard that it would be different if I was to pop off on someone's dps instead?