parse for ps4 users !

[MentheusDreyar]

Well, I'm not convinced, then, as my experience with df is different than yours. I do not support a parser, or think it will help make a better party experience.

Talking from your experience is fine, but you only need to look on any forum that posts about FF14 and you'll see the increasing amount of threads created complaining about failing DPS checks and bad players in general to see there is definitely a community problem regarding player skill, but the majority of complaints by far are about the increasing amount of poor DPS players people are finding within DF and failing content because of it. These problems are widespread.

The lack of a feedback tool in a game based almost solely on DPS checks (because apparently simple mechanics are too hard for many) is a huge issue. In a game where DPS players need to perform for the party to realistically complete content to not have a feedback tool is plain stupid and promotes lazy play and ignorance of your own skill. They might not know they are playing poorly, they might not even care, but the ability to know where you stand is incredibly important, especially when your poor play is affecting 3+ other players experience too.

I also fully agree with Sapphic, especially these points...

So you think it contributes to a better community when people do not know why they are failing content? That lack of info is already driving people apart. It stops players DFiing content because you don't know if you get the terrible player who after wipes blames everyone else instead of looking at themselves, with no official proof otherwise they continue believing they are correct.

Content gets nerfed because players don't realise they are failing to meet the minimum requirements for content, players get frustrated when they are trying yet players they get paired with either aren't or are ignorant to their performance. Failing content causes more toxicity, hostility and trepidition in utilizing the DF rather than knowing exactly why content is being failed..

The community is already being driven apart because of this, less and less experienced players are likely using DF because its far too common to be shoved into an instance where you are failing constantly and have no idea why, it only frustrates people to no end. Which is why you see players leaving instances when they load, it's not worth the hassle most of the time, especially in trails and raids, or kicking players and refusing to play with the new player bonus. The lack of feedback has only bred more bad players, and the increasing count of bad players only builds up the "toxicity" of other players when content is being failed continuously.

This includes myself, DF has become toxic, it's becoming less and less attractive to use. The only thing i run on it now is Level Roulette, no reward can make me sit there doing all the hard work for other people wiping multiple times to content long past being current and being piss easy at that. If i want anything done i'll call on my FC or my 4 designated Linkshell's for finding players for content.

The constant nerfing of content by SE doesn't help things either, making content easier that isn't really hard to begin with anyway is NOT improving player skill, it's only making it worse and it's only allowing them to progress to frustrate and causing problems for more people further down the line. Which then results in more nerfs, which ultimately devalues content.

It's story content, people NEED to clear it, but it doesn't get cleared because DPS are used to being allowed to be shit. And there is no way to know which of the 4 are failing, and need to either focus, change their rotation, or get removed. So yeah, babying DPS does not really work anymore, and if SE want to keep adding DPS checks to story content, they NEED to give us a way to see where the problem is.

Exactly this ^