SE's most difinitive statement yet on parsers

[Reynhart]

I'll give you the "illegal" part, but even so the way you form your posts is incredibly bias, and a lot of people in this thread have been outright ignoringt eh benefits that parsing brings.

As biased as "FFXIV requires parsing". I had all my relics before 2.1. I cleared Turn 4 before 2.2, and all those without any parsing tools. And I've seen very good players with average stuff, that would clearly lost a pure DPS but managed to dodge every mechanic of Titan.

You pretty much misunderstood the context there. I said you shouldn't be giving your opinion because you were posting incredibly misinformed things about end game content within the game, not about parsing itself. So I completely disregarded that paragraph completely.

Again, I've done endgame content in 2.0 and 2.1, specifically avoiding "post your DPS"-people or "one mistake and we'll kick you"-people. I've trained several members in my FC so that they manage to win content while still enjoying the game. My opinion is based on this way of playing the game, that didn't prevent me to clear early endgame. And like someone said, parse-required-mentality started even before 2.0

There's also a third option; people who believe parsers bring huge benefits to the end game community and want to show SE that the entire community isn't anti-parser. With a mod API apparently in the works (even though we've heard nothing about it since launch, I fear that the current negativity on the forums would put such a thing in jeopardy.

Actually, I'm aware that parsing can be interesting. When my FC leader did an intervew at Japan Expo in France, I even gave him a suggestion about implementing a parser on training dolls which he asked Yoshida. I thought that by doing this, people can work a min-max build when choosing stuff without the fear of being harassed in dungeons.

[saeedaisspecial]

As biased as "FFXIV requires parsing". I had all my relics before 2.1. I cleared Turn 4 before 2.2, and all those without any parsing tools. And I've seen very good players with average stuff, that would clearly lost a pure DPS but managed to dodge every mechanic of Titan.

Again, I've done endgame content in 2.0 and 2.1, specifically avoiding "post your DPS"-people or "one mistake and we'll kick you"-people. I've trained several members in my FC so that they manage to win content while still enjoying the game. My opinion is based on this way of playing the game, that didn't prevent me to clear early endgame. And like someone said, parse-required-mentality started even before 2.0

Actually, I'm aware that parsing can be interesting. When my FC leader did an intervew at Japan Expo in France, I even gave him a suggestion about implementing a parser on training dolls which he asked Yoshida. I thought that by doing this, people can work a min-max build when choosing stuff without the fear of being harassed in dungeons.

Honestly I'm satisfied with this reply (except the coil/relic thing that goers back to content at their prime vs content near the end of its life argument, but I'm not going to nitpick there). Although I would add one thing.
A parser on training dummies only would be useless, as at end game even though you know your rotation, you may be doing less damage on encounter X or Y, you need to be able to analyse why.

[Reynhart]

Honestly I'm satisfied with this reply. Although I would add one thing.
A parser on training dummies only would be useless, as at end game even though you know your rotation, you may be doing less damage on encounter X or Y, you need to be able to analyse why.

The main goal is to see which stat gives you the greater boost. Should I focus on Deter, or Critical ? Maybe Skill speed can change something too.
On harder content, numbers will be lower, but the ratio will probably be the same.