Translations (JP to English)

[Kiran]

This is great, now I can sift through my fights easier and see where i might want to improve

Here's hoping we can't. Combat log parsers are the bane of most MMOs, XIV doesn't need one. Offline chat logs would be nice though!

[Murugan]

Here's hoping we can't. Combat log parsers are the bane of most MMOs, XIV doesn't need one. Offline chat logs would be nice though!

Down with the truth, down with facts, down with data! Ignorance is bliss.

[Soukyuu]

Down with the truth, down with facts, down with data! Ignorance is bliss.

Playing a game isn't supposed to be fun! It's all about optimizing your performance! Those who can't manage to fulfill performance criteria up to 3rd decimal digit better not hope for a <insert high level content here> party invite!

[Nayt]

Playing a game isn't supposed to be fun! It's all about optimizing your performance! Those who can't manage to fulfill performance criteria up to 3rd decimal digit better not hope for a <insert high level content here> party invite!

Striving towards optimization is /fun/
Dilly-dallying through the game with average performance is not

[Sephrick]

Striving towards optimization is /fun/
Dilly-dallying through the game with average performance is not

It can be fun to a point, but gets out of hand when things start getting personal over a 3% difference in damage. Kind of like the XI Monk forums on ZAM circa 2005-2010.

There's nothing wrong with solving the riddles of the game like str/attack/dmg relationships, but as with all things on the Internet there are those incapable of not taking things too far.

It stops being fun when people exclude you from an event because you don't have the best items, which many times were the rewards from said event.

[Rydin]

It can be fun to a point, but gets out of hand when things start getting personal over a 3% difference in damage. Kind of like the XI Monk forums on ZAM circa 2005-2010.

There's nothing wrong with solving the riddles of the game like str/attack/dmg relationships, but as with all things on the Internet there are those incapable of not taking things too far.

It stops being fun when people exclude you from an event because you don't have the best items, which many times were the rewards from said event.

Yea but everyone who would be that "hardcore" over that type of information is already using a chat log damage parser