The Real Problem with Parsers

[Hellzon]

I can see a future where class "x" won't be accept in a party because it lacks dps.
Let me see if it's the player fault... Oh my God! No, it's not. Balacing a game is really hard and those things will always happen and parses will become a big problem. We'll also see some classes disappearing. The same as in wow, where we used to have a lot of shamans, when the last expansion arrived they disappeared. I kept playing a shaman but to find a group that allowed me to play as shaman melee was really tough, then they buffed shaman and everybody started playing it again and Rogues disappeared. No, it's not funny!

[spelley]

I can see a future where class "x" won't be accept in a party because it lacks dps.

This game is significantly more balanced than WOW (or most MMOs). DPS numbers are pretty normalized amongst roles, with even the "low" end within a role being with the "skill margin" most of the time (a player really eeking out DPS as a PLD will probably out DPS a DRK who is only average or not really trying). Part of this is because there are no "specs" so there aren't as many variables which makes one more "gimped" than the other.

As an aside, I have never seen someone kicked for "too low DPS" in anything aside from Bismarck EX, because they literally were holding the group back. This was fairly obvious even without a parser. When something is a DPS check, a DPS doing poorly is just as bad a Tank who is not holding aggro or a Healer not keeping the tank alive, but is nearly invisible without either a lot of experience in what to look out for or a parser.

[Hellzon]

This game is significantly more balanced than WOW (or most MMOs).

Man, this game is not balanced at all, they work faster than wow, that's all. Let's remember dragoon in the past, Monk and astrologian in 3.0.Not talking about "fixes" Machinist and Dark Knight received earlier 3.0 and finally we can talk about whm in 3.0.7. I don't think balance will ever exist. Of course we don't have specs and it helps a lot, not many things to fix, but it does exist. That's the reason they are always working and changing skills/cds, etc.

[Tsilyi]

Man, this game is not balanced at all, they work faster than wow, that's all.

This game is and pretty much has always been A LOT better balanced than wow. Sure, WoW has way more classes, but that doesn't excuse things like warlocks in siege and disc priests for basically every patch since Heart of Fear came out (and for quite a few patches in previous expansions as well). In WoW there are sometimes GLARING outliers that last for no fewer than mutliple patches. Yes, in FFXIV the numbers are smaller and thus the "outliers" are smaller but they're still within relatively tolerable balance levels.