With Activision and Bungies recent wins against cheat providers it is time SE's

[Saraide]

I'd argue that the whole "resume" part of fflogs and act is more offputting to a majority of players than it is encouraging them to engage with the content. Participation numbers would go up, not down. Not to mention, most parses are not an accurate representation of the player's skill or potential.

The amount of people who actually care about that stuff are an extreme minority.

Also what does it mean for ultimate content to become entirely insolated? Definitions of insolate. verb. expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun. “insolated paper may turn yellow and crumble”

The other thing is, PF ultimates are proof that all your claims are incorrect. You don't vet players in PF, they join the group, it fills, and you do the run. Tons of people clear the hardest content in the game through PF.

Lmao why do you think vetting doesnt happen in PF

[HikariKurosawa]

Lmao why do you think vetting doesnt happen in PF

Okay let me clarify, it does happen, but it doesn't happen more often than it does. There are weird people in every part of the game. Like most people who don't want an anti-cheat are using alexander to double weave consistently when you're not really supposed to do that by the game's design and wouldn't be parsing nearly as high as you are without using addons.

It's just a joke that people are enabled to do what they do. There is no such thing as the elite in this game because everyone at the top is cheating. So what's the point of vetting players to begin with? The "job resume" you're talking about is basically "are you willing to cheat to get ahead?"

Hard to respect anyone's opinion when even black mages are using an addon to track mp ticks for their non-standard optimizations. This community's "hardcore" playerbase is pathetic.

[LianaThorne]

Okay let me clarify, it does happen, but it doesn't happen more often than it does. There are weird people in every part of the game. Like most people who don't want an anti-cheat are using alexander to double weave consistently when you're not really supposed to do that by the game's design and wouldn't be parsing nearly as high as you are without using addons.

It's just a joke that people are enabled to do what they do. There is no such thing as the elite in this game because everyone at the top is cheating. So what's the point of vetting players to begin with? The "job resume" you're talking about is basically "are you willing to cheat to get ahead?"

Hard to respect anyone's opinion when even black mages are using an addon to track mp ticks for their non-standard optimizations. This community's "hardcore" playerbase is pathetic.

Just gonna state the obvious that everyone at the top doesn't cheat. Console players somehow manage to clear Ultimates and I can say that not everyone on the PC side of things sinks to using them either. Is it becoming more of an issue on the PC side of things lately? Yep.

I just don't think it's accurate to say that everyone at the top is cheating. Or you might have to specify what is the "top" in your opinion since there aren't official rankings in this game outside of PVP (but even they're irrelevant since rewards are trash).

[OdinelStarrei]

Okay let me clarify, it does happen, but it doesn't happen more often than it does. There are weird people in every part of the game. Like most people who don't want an anti-cheat are using alexander to double weave consistently when you're not really supposed to do that by the game's design and wouldn't be parsing nearly as high as you are without using addons.

This is probably one of the stupidest and most ignorant things I have ever read on this forum. The reason why it's so bad, is because there is official, developer approved material that implements double weaves, such as the Official Shadowbringers Job & Dungeons Guide book, which has double weaves on even the slowest of jobs like WAR recommended, there are certain jobs in the game that cannot physically be played without the usage of several consecutive double weaves without complete cooldown dealignment or resource overcapping (DRK, GNB, MCH, BRD, DRG, RPR, SAM, AST under Lightspeed)

If clipping your GCD was intentional (something that is inevitable if you fail a double weave or try to triple weave), why did all the healers have their awful spam 1 nuke GCD reduced in cast time to 1.5? Why does Eukrasia make your next GCD cast (with the exception of Pnuema) instant? It's certainly not for movement, because SGE has one of the most consistent and free teleports in the game only beat by NIN. But it certainly makes sense considering SGE has a large amount of oGCDs that are meant to be weaved together.

If double weaving consistently wasn't intended, it actually is really easy to not let that happen, and it's called "make everything in the game that could be a double weave have an animation lock like Stardiver does" Because Stardiver, even with good connections, is unweavable. But if anything, the fact that jobs have oGCDs that are prerequisites to other oGCDs, such as Edge of Shadow being a technical pre-requisite to Shadowbringer but possible in the same weave windows even with this game's abysmal tickrate.