DPS Tool

[Raenryong]

Curse + "not saying"progress.com. There's a lot of DPS meters being downloaded especially overall and monthly and I know for sure everyone downloading them aren't doing it because they are raiders or because they need it to improve but because it's a "requirement".

Requirement howso? Like performance is a requirement?

But then you go on to say

Rotations are something you memorize so that already kills the necessity of parsers.

If we completely ignore the flaws in this statement, what are the parsers then being "necessarily" downloaded for? If you have a rotation, you don't need a parser according to your logic. So what is the necessity that is driving people to download?

EDIT: To make a small elaboration simply to hammer home my point; if, extending your logic, rotations are something which can be worked our purely by memorisation with no influence of parsers or analytical methods whatsoever, then why would any player fear a parser? If you put in the time to learn a rotation, you would then in theory be fine on any content (unless dying a lot ... which means you're not fine, parser or no parser). So what scenario suddenly arises which may challenge this player?

There is no way of knowing if your rotation is optimal unless you do heavy parsing or full mathematical analysis. The former is far more readily available to most people than the latter. I prefer the latter, though parses are nice to confirm theory (as with all things, a theory is only good if it explains and can be used to predict physical evidence).

Furthermore, the only real objective way to assess how good you are at maintaining DPS in more stressful/varied situations is by parsing and checking your DPS at the end.

There's a way better tool for mechanics and that's called Deadly Boss Mods, something that isn't in FFXIV yet, yet that's a way better tool and one I'd try and promote over "dps meters". How many times has it been brought up in this thread to "help" people again? Rarely if not at all.

All the scenarios you posted are the reason why DPS meters are in fact a demerit.

Mechanics != raw output. They are two different things. You can dodge Titan EX like a pro, but if your raw DPS is lacking, it's not going to die. Boss Mods won't help with that in the slightest.