Parsers make you stupid

[Kathyz]

If you have a problem with them you can just report them and they get ban... so... yeah... its better for them just shut the F*** up.

[DubiousDisk]

Parsers are great IF you're in a serious static that wants to output the most DPS in a raid, or if you just like to see how much you can pump out.

People who use it to judge and berate others hurt my young soul and honestly you should just ignore them. If you know you're DPS is good enough for a raid and know the mechanics, then don't let it get to you.

Once in my Turn 8 party someone was using a parser on me and my best friend, and yelled at my friend because her DPS compared to mines was a tad bit lower.

[SeraviEdalborez]

Parsers are a diagnosis tool. You don't need one to see a bad DPS, but it adds confirmation.

Generally the only people who will publicly complain about low DPS in DF, without taking factors into account, are people with low skill trying to emulate the endgame progression community. If you get this in PF, you're kind of expected to know what you're doing.

That said, balls are not as huge of a DPS drop are you're making it out to be. While MNK suffers a bit in A4 from losing GL more often than comfortable it shouldn't be a huge gap either.

[KyrsIsley]

Firstly, taking orbs should be tank's duty. Tank can take 3,4 at the same time with CDs, and the rest will be share within party. Melee do not need to go out and take orbs unless it's right next to you, for that is dps lost. Even when you want to take orbs, as melee 2 orbs are the limit. If the party don't do the mechanic, they will wipe. let them wipe for a couple times they'll realize, if not, just go for another party.
I main mnk too, and I assure you MNKs will dominate the dps chart if you play it right. Don't let those who don't play the class drag you down. I see Parse as a tool to make a better player, not a thing to harass others players.

^this. Ignorance makes people stupid. Parsers are just a means for them to harass you. Take some screenshots and report those people for harassment.

[averageamn]

To be frank, the only time anyone would complain about a DPS' inability to do damage is if a tank or healer bests them in damage for a fight.

Nice complaint thread tho.

[Asami_Yukimura]

First of all Parsers don't make you stupid, it helps to see what kind of damage you can deal and how to improve on maximizing your class so you don't suck at the game. if you can't maximize dps on a class while doing mechanics then you're most likely bad at the game too! Parsers don't make people stupid! A lot of people are already stupid to begin with. If people are against parsers on this game then they're most likely not willing to self improve and only shows how casual and bad the community is. second of all, why is the tank even shit talking you for in duty finder. Yes you shouldn't be getting out dpsed by a tank to begin with but if he is trash talking to you for no reason then he is most likely an immature individual who needs to grow up and get off his high horse. I out dps people all the time on my tanking classes, but I know for a fact that a lot of people on this game play for fun and there's no need to trash talk them. My 2 cents have been given <3

[m3eansean]

I've noticed, that a majority of people who really need improvement on their DPS numbers don't like to be told they are under-performing. Many will hide behind the fact that the content was still cleared, or they had such and such to deal with, but at the end of the day, its someone telling them that they can be better and really excel at their job and they're throwing the baby out with the bathwater and just getting offended at any kind of criticism it would seem.

I firmly believe, if there was a public in-game parser everyone could see, people would grow up quite fast and establish much more realistic and pragmatic views regarding their potential as DPS. Developing a thick skin is a life lesson.

[AlphaFox]

They are not all bad, I personally don't use em but a few people I know do and we use it merely to gauge who needs to tweek their gear, rotation and such to get the most optimized performance, especially with savage now having a high mark to hit. However I admit, in the wrong hands they start to feel like god and just the mention of having one and connecting a poor performance to a name can almost be a death sentence to your existence in that group.

[Aethaeryn]

To be frank, the only time anyone would complain about a DPS' inability to do damage is if a tank or healer bests them in damage for a fight.

Nice complaint thread tho.

Definitely not true. A month or two before the expansion, someone was complaining about how I was doing 450 dps on my i118 geared bard in a farming dungeon while his monk buddy was doing like 550 in BiS gear. I was playing bard for fun, and we still finished the dungeon in like 16 minutes or something, so I'm not sure what the problem was.

Also, it's pretty easy for an offtank (especially warrior) to outdamage a melee in A4 if they just stay on the boss the whole time and make the melee handle all of the mechanics they should be handling.

[Asami_Yukimura]

I've noticed, that a majority of people who really need improvement on their DPS numbers don't like to be told they are under-performing. Many will hide behind the fact that the content was still cleared, or they had such and such to deal with, but at the end of the day, its someone telling them that they can be better and really excel at their job and they're throwing the baby out with the bathwater and just getting offended at any kind of criticism it would seem.

I firmly believe, if there was a public in-game parser everyone could see, people would grow up quite fast and establish much more realistic and pragmatic views regarding their potential as DPS. Developing a thick skin is a life lesson.

Yes they should add a public in game parser so everyone can see where they stand :^) you should go work for SE put it in the game for all us tryhards