The Real Problem with Parsers

[Kenji1134]

@War w/ 86 dps... I think I autoattack for more while running around taking flaming orbs to the face...

#Impressed

[ForbiddenMonk]

If no parsers are allowed, how are we able to see the pro groups like this from the DF?

This is from an A4 run I just did. (NIN died in quarantine so I was expecting low dps from him at the end of the fight.)

This is the reason why parsers should exist. Parsing 289.27 at ilvl170+ is NOT ACCEPTABLE, and if it wasnt for the mnk (who has a parser, so he can git gud), this group would see enrage all day.

[RiceisNice]

This is the reason why parsers should exist. Parsing 289.27 at ilvl170+ is NOT ACCEPTABLE, and if it wasnt for the mnk (who has a parser, so he can git gud), this group would see enrage all day.

The Ninja died in quarantine, so he was out o commission the entire fight. The warrior on the other hand, that's less than auto attacks and a dps that was potentially dead for the entire fight and explains why the ninja died in quarantine.

[ForbiddenMonk]

Didnt see that death in quarantine part. Even better, by analyzing the parse, you were able to determine that it was the War's fault for the Ninjas death, rather than the nin's dps. Boom. Parser helped

[KaosPrimeZero]

If no parsers are allowed, how are we able to see the pro groups like this from the DF?

This is from an A4 run I just did. (NIN died in quarantine so I was expecting low dps from him at the end of the fight.)

Seriously having a terrible day at work today but sir i thank you, i cannot stop laughing at them numbers. im actually in tears lol. 85dps lmao

[Subucnimorning]

Above picture is hilariously accurate.

[RiisWolf]

I'm getting real sick of tanking for clueless DPS who do 300s with 170+ gear. 35 minutes stay 35 minutes even with all the better things I get.

I'm getting real sick of doing my best as DPS only to have it all wasted because our tank and other DPS are underperforming. Most of the time as DPS I AM THE TANK, so what's the freaking point of being DPS if I can't enjoy DPS because I gotta play pretend tank when the tank sucks!? Now I automatically assume the next paladin I'm stuck with will just fail and I'm not OK with that!

I am getting sick of how clueless players get. A FCmate who mains SMN harassed me about my AoE rotation as SMN anytime I use or mention it to help other new players with their AoE rotation. He claimed Bliz2 sucks cause it sucks for BLM, it was obvious he didn't bother to research or try, and he was 180+ and I was 160. No matter what I said, even when I was the only one saying the numbers between all the other options, he while backed up by two equally clueless players brushed it all off. It was so bad I literally had to show him the parse to give him one hell of a wake up call, because he was doing 400 single target and 600 AoE, while I did 680 single target and 1000 AoE. He doesn't bother me about it anymore.

And I'm especially getting sick of having be subjected to so many more problems with players than I EVER had with in 6 years of WoW, because of this.

[Waliel]

Also, I notice that people skim over the PS3 limitations thing. What's your opinion on what needs to be removed for parsers if they couldn't even add in a TP bar without removing the party bonus to another window?

Make it its own window, I guess.

TP bar and things

I'm 95% positive it's because of of ps3 limited 512MB memory. There's just not enough of that to constantly show all of that. I think there's a hard limit of five open windows or something for PS3, so you can hide stuff in there and still be sure you're inside your memory limits, if you open a bunch of them.

If no parsers are allowed, how are we able to see the pro groups like this from the DF?

This is from an A4 run I just did. (NIN died in quarantine so I was expecting low dps from him at the end of the fight.)

That is some seriously bad gear on the BLM, if their highest hit was only 5304.

[sackm]

Make it its own window, I guess.



I'm 95% positive it's because of of ps3 limited 512MB memory. There's just not enough of that to constantly show all of that. I think there's a hard limit of five open windows or something for PS3, so you can hide stuff in there and still be sure you're inside your memory limits, if you open a bunch of them.



That is some seriously bad gear on the BLM, if their highest hit was only 5304.

at least they actually used fire 4? lol....on topic though, lately more than ever does it feeling like bad players are ruining the game experience for me. People should not be joining Dusk Vigil with a NQ 115 weapon (basically nq = i90 weapon or less) or ATMA (LOL U READ THAT RIGHT, AN ATMA WEAPON). They will be full 120 gear and using some garbage tier weapon because they dont understand how stats work in the game.

[spelley]

snip.

To be fair, this game does nothing to help a player know what the actual effects of the stats are. Only by digging into the guts of the game and a hell of a lot of data collection do we have the stat weights and research we do. Not everyone has time/wants to dig into the forums (especially forums filled with people telling them how they are nub scrubs) and just want to play the game....

And the reason they probably have full i120 gear and only the i115 weapon specifically? Because no one runs the damned Crystal Tower anymore so there is no easy way to get the Encrypted Allagan Tomestone to buy the Poetics weapon, and some don't have a ton of gil coming in so they can buy a crafted HQ weapon.