Quote Originally Posted by Sebazy View Post
Savage coil isn't possible without the use of a parser to get everyone to the performance level the content requires. The vast majority of T9 clears will have either run a parser themselves or used strategies that were devised off the back of parser data even if they don't quite know it.
Actually, yes it is or SE wouldn't have designed it. You must remember that all content that goes into this game is designed around all platforms offered to the playerbase. Every little bit of content in this game can be completed by a full party of ps3 players (which would innately lack any parsing ability).Of course, they would have to work harder to overcome hardware limitations, but SE wouldn't have designed a fight a specific way unless it was possible to complete within some reasonable percentage. People here may not like this, but for the most part "parsers" are a mere crutch that lesser-skilled players (not just in FFXIV but in many MMOs) have become so dependent upon that they have become the "norm" in gaming society. This was to be expected though from a purely psychological standpoint. After all, the same principle applies to raising children. The more you spoil them, the more they demand later and the more they complains when things don't go their way. Gamers have been spoiled by parsers giving them the easy way out, and know nothing now but how to demand for them to be integrated into every game. The minute you design a game that doesn't warrant their use, people flip their shit because you've moved "outside the established norm." Hell, I remember 13-14 years ago parsers were unheard of, and we fought and defeated difficult enemies by brain-power alone.