Quote Originally Posted by Dzian View Post
The problem with those sites is they don't really tell you all that much at all.

You cannot for example look at a parse on fflogs and be like ok that players dragoon is i1000 and has an i950 weapon. And gear is a MAJOR component in damage, especially with the games power creep..

So while you may look at a parse see a player is green and conclude that players terrible. Maybe they're not. Maybe they're playing the job properly but don't really chase the treadmill to much. It's tedious af having to rebuild every job every patch..

It doesn't take much to drop you from lets say the 90th percentile right down to the 60s, 50s. Mayve even 40s Sometimes just 10-20 i-levels. And if your around 50% your basically "average"

Better gear alone can take a player from green to purple in some cases but players just see green and automatically conclude bad player. When in reality you can be a good or great player just not in the latest and greatest gear because treadmill is tedious af.

This is also why many players pad the level requirements on PF groups so much because gear goes an incredibly long way to cover for a bad player.

I do very much agree with the op that these things should be opt in. Not opt out. And any player dated from players not opted in should be anonymized. And show as "unknown dragoon" or something
There are also the things that numbers won't tell you.

My static has an amazing astro. Honestly, I wonder sometimes why he's with our casual static because he's just fantastic. He gets incredibly high numbers but as his main tank I never have to worry that he's too focused on dps and will let me or the rest of the party down when we need him.

My friend who is also the main tank has two static healers who focus on dps and have just as high numbers as he does, but she's constantly talking about how they either let her die to greed or she has to blow all her mit to stay alive. Her healers don't support her and only chase their own numbers, to the detriment of their static's progress sometimes.

Those who only look at log numbers would classify those two healers the same but they are miles apart in their value to the party.

There's also the grey or green parser you might get in PF who picks up things quickly or is incredibly accurate with mechanics. I know most PF groups I've been in would rather have that person than someone with a higher number who constantly greeds and wipes the party, or can't do the mechanics well in a PF setting and seems like they might usually have some sort of callout helping them.