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    Ikeda Komori
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    Sargatanas
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    Thaumaturge Lv 50
    Quote Originally Posted by ReplicaX View Post
    I get it well Ikeda, as a player that has invested over 11yrs with SE MMOs. You bring up past practices, so please explain the implementation of ilvl avg brought by SE and PF with an option to set it. As many out of that biggest source of income claim massive abuse with it.
    Those were just mistakes by SE thinking they were adding something people think of as "necessary".

    The ilvl issue was likely the same reason they added duty finder and a few other bad design decisions they made. I like to imagine the process of making that decision went like this: "We're clearly not copying WoW enough I mean have you seen those other mmos that copied WoW? They're liek totally making millions *ignores the fact that pretty much every single P2P mmo that has tried to copy WoW too much for the past 9+ years has either shut down or been dumbed down to F2P* I know let's copy item levels, those totally couldn't be detrimental to the community ".

    Party finder was more along the lines of something that can be useful but due to ilvls and a few unnecessary additions to it (the ability for players to set requirements) has caused more problems than it should have.

    Parsers fall into the category of something that "can" be helpful but causes far too many issues than it helps, and is unnecessary but people have the delusion that they're necessary due to overuse in other mmos.
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    Last edited by Ikeda; 04-15-2014 at 02:19 AM.

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    Methos Ranperre
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    Jenova
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    Ninja Lv 70
    Quote Originally Posted by Ikeda View Post
    Party finder was more along the lines of something that can be useful but due to ilvls and a few unnecessary additions to it (the ability for players to set requirements) has caused more problems than it should have.
    As I thought we have similar opinions on it.

    To the point on an official parser, as I said I won't drag it out. If the community can't be mature about it and grow skin in a constructive manner from both parties, why bother. Easy already explained the other side and abusive players will get thrown to the wolves.
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    Saviour Divinemight
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    Leviathan
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    Archer Lv 60
    Parser is not really an accurate measurement to begin with. It is just showing a figure for your overall DPS at, and for most of time, it is not accurate.

    Takes BRD for example, you may be parsed at 250 DPS in T5, but if you didnt do your CD correctly, you still can not break out people in conflag. This is a scenario I have seen in last night's T5 progression party. His overall DPS is up to par, but he did grief mistake when handling conflag, because he would always dot conflag with venom and frostbite before his other CDs.

    Did parser reflects everything in this scenario? I seriously doubt that. Parser is only abe to give you a general idea of where you are at, but it can not reflect all the details.
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