The Real Problem with Parsers

[AniCelestine]

(Note: I didn't bother reading 66 pages, read the OP and first page so yeah, I might or might not say something everyone else has said the past 65 pages)

Parsers parsers parsers. Everyone complains 'bout parsers and how they should be banned because that's the only way you can tell if a Job specifically designed to be dealing alot of damage is doing a bad job at that thing.

Here's a question for all the people who hates parsers and wants them gone: Do you never want to kick a tank for not knowing how to do their job? Or do you not want to kick a healer that can't keep anyone alive in the party? That's their job's equilevant of doing a bad job.

Sure, in most cases if a damage dealing class is doing less than 500 dps at lvl 60 it doesn't mean you're unable to complete the duty but it's still as annoying for the other people in the group if you're doing a bad job as a dps, as it is annoying for you a if tank or healer is doing a bad job, let's face it, you're not going to be sitting in that one dungeon willingly wiping on that one boss you just can't clear cause your healer can't heal you through it for 90 minutes or the tank keeps losing aggro on the boss that just runs up to the healer and one shots it.


The main reason why we need parsers in this game, is the insane dps checks you have at the end game. You can't just tell a person to "get good" if there's nothing you can reflect your results onto.
Sure, one could get a recording software, start recording and punch the dummy for that 3:30min and then rewatch the video, add up all the dmg done and then calculate the dps done in that fashion, but that requires you to have good enough specs on your PC or bought software(I believe, correct me if I'm wong) in order to record it incase you're still using ps3. Then, you need to spend alot more time on making sure you did all the calculations correctly while re-watching the video, rewinding, pausing, playing, making a time stamp with x amout of dmg done incase you lose track, etc etc.


Tell me, if there was alot easier and less time consuming way to do a certain task than what you'd otherwise have to do to get the same result, would you still want to do the more time consuming and harder way?


There are people who have really wrong mentality 'bout Duty Finder and Parsers and that's the main issue. Duty Finder is a place where you just simply can't expect perfection* and most stuff (ex roulet) you do at DF doesn't require absolute perfection. Just fucking deal with it, or get your static's 8man group to divide into 2 groups that run that ex roulet every day(4dps 2 healers 2 tanks = 2x 2dps 1 healer 1 tank surprised?) to get that daily eso bonus you're so madly after that you absolutely need to kick people that are sub-perfect.

*(Though I've heard that JP people use DF for perfect runs and PF for training, but as far as I know that's not how it works on the English speaking servers).

There was that clever modified version of a existing quote 'bout guns and people.

Parsers don't VTK people. People VTK people.

Best Regards,
Healer top dps on 70% of my daily DR runs, do you see me kicking people? No.