Absolute frustration at not being able to see my own DPS (ps4)

[melisande]

Except the OP isn't asking about knowing his rotation specifically and not all performance measures are rotation based. Hes trying to improve his performance in a specific instance in regards to savage without having to rely on others to know his numbers.

Another problem you could solve by .... playing the game. Anything you do outside of what is considered a basic rotation inside a raid is intuitive and you only get better with practice, aka, playing... the game.

[zosia]

Another problem you could solve by .... playing the game. Anything you do outside of what is considered a basic rotation inside a raid is intuitive and you only get better with practice, aka, playing... the game.

you have no idea what you are talking about. You are doing nothing but providing presumptuous opposition.

In alex savage, you have to discover your classes nuances. Since I play BLM, I will use it as an example. On a4s, it's very easy to lose enochain. A parser provides real time data on your dps. As a blm on a4s I can tell when I should use the ability enochain and when I should hold it to refresh for the next leg. I can see in live time which choice is the best, even if it only netted me a 25 dps gain. A choice like that is NOT intuitive. You need to see dps in real time to discover some of those nuances, not just the average dps over a whole fight.

No amount of intuition will yield that kind of data. Now, let me check your character real fast... Yup, just as I thought, opposition crafted on the foundation of assumptions made by you despite not having experience in the current fights where parsers are needed.

[melisande]

you have no idea what you are talking about. You are doing nothing but providing presumptuous opposition.

In alex savage, you have to discover your classes nuances. Since I play BLM, I will use it as an example. On a4s, it's very easy to lose enochain. A parser provides real time data on your dps. As a blm on a4s I can tell when I should use the ability enochain and when I should hold it to refresh for the next leg. I can see in live time which choice is the best, even if it only netted me a 25 dps gain. A choice like that is NOT intuitive. You need to see dps in real time to discover some of those nuances, not just the average dps over a whole fight.

No amount of intuition will yield that kind of data. Now, let me check your character real fast... Yup, just as I thought, opposition crafted on the foundation of assumptions made by you despite not having experience in the current fights where parsers are needed.

Current fights meaning the only thing i haven't cleared is Alexander Savage and Thordan Extreme? Anyways, your example in A4S how you figured out you "As a blm on a4s I can tell when I should use the ability enochain and when I should hold it to refresh for the next leg." Your parser TELLS you that? You couldn't have POSSIBLY, figured that out by yourself, with practice, really? Interesting argument. Lets just also point out what you probably use it for the most, TRIGGERS.

[Gardes]

Current fights meaning the only thing i haven't cleared is Alexander Savage and Thordan Extreme? Anyways, your example in A4S how you figured out you "As a blm on a4s I can tell when I should use the ability enochain and when I should hold it to refresh for the next leg." Your parser TELLS you that? You couldn't have POSSIBLY, figured that out by yourself, with practice, really? Interesting argument. Lets just also point out what you probably use it for the most, TRIGGERS.

Just imagine you're a race driver practicing on a race track. Your car doesnt have any meters. You have a race coming in 2 weeks and you want to improve your lap time. You have some ideas on what you want to do to speed up but all you have is your 'gut feeling' and you literally can't be told what your lap times are while Zosia here has his lap times timed and he is informed of what his lap times are. All you'll get is you thinking "uhh I think I went faster this time. Did I? Maybe? I think so..." while Zosia doesn't have to second guess himself about any tuning he did. He knows what the results are.