add an in game parser please!!!

[Rawrz]

Playstation players are not getting one.

Fixed that for you. Not like there are plans to take away parsers from PCs.

[Eylirria]

We're not getting one. This bad debate has been going on forever on this forum. Get used to the idea. The dev team is smart enough to know it's not a good thing for the game.

We already have a few.
We just can't talk about it very openly.

As if not making it easy to see the number makes the number not exist...

[Kacho_Nacho]

Are you guys ready for a radical idea?
On how to solve DPS-meter based harassment?

Here's a radical idea: Don't be bad.

An oversimplification. Parsers don't take into account the different ilevels of the characters. Will people be called out as :bad: for simply having lesser gear?

[Kuwagami]

An oversimplification. Parsers don't take into account the different ilevels of the characters. Will people be called out as :bad: for simply having lesser gear?

we're not talking "900 instead of 1100" bad, we're talking "500 instead of 1200" bad. Yes they exist. I keep getting them in my expert roulette, or in alexander midas.

edit : mind you, the "900 instead of 1100" isn't even bad. Sub-performing, maybe. Depends on the gear. But bad ? That would be being a prick over nothing for 99% of the available content.

[RickXRolled]

we're not talking "900 instead of 1100" bad, we're talking "500 instead of 1200" bad. Yes they exist. I keep getting them in my expert roulette, or in alexander midas.

edit : mind you, the "900 instead of 1100" isn't even bad. Sub-performing, maybe. Depends on the gear. But bad ? That would be being a prick over nothing for 99% of the available content.

500 dps is amazing you know! Only the best monks could dps that high in I110 on t8!

[Ashkendor]

500 dps is amazing you know! Only the best monks could dps that high in I110 on t8!

T8: everyone's favorite striking dummy. Ow! Stupid tank, stop hitting me!

[Eylirria]

An oversimplification. Parsers don't take into account the different ilevels of the characters. Will people be called out as :bad: for simply having lesser gear?

It's hardly an oversimplification.

We aren't talking about people doing 5-10% less (1300 vs 1150) as a case of "omg you are doing this all wrong!"
We're talking 1150 vs 400.

And don't say these people don't exist at cap. Because they do. And they are more common that anyone would like them to be.

[Ashkendor]

An oversimplification. Parsers don't take into account the different ilevels of the characters. Will people be called out as :bad: for simply having lesser gear?

No, because we as players have the capacity to look at another character and see what gear they have equipped. Anyone with brain one in their head isn't going to expect Savage-tier DPS from a Dragoon wearing a mix of un-upgraded Law and green dungeon gear. However, if that same Dragoon is doing 400-500 DPS that's definitely cause for concern as that wasn't even top tier DPS back when Dreadwyrm was a thing. It's like I've said many times before: a parser is nothing more than a tool. Stupid people can use tools just as easily as the rest of us, the main difference being that they usually use them incorrectly.

[Natashio]

Just going to leave this here for your enjoyment while you'll keep beating around the bush with this topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UNqHHPJhD4

[Dyvid]

The only thing a parser is going to tell you is that someone is either A) not using a good rotation or B) they don't know the fight yet. SSS, in theory, is there to work out all the kinks in an ideal setting. So if you beat the dummy but have bad dps in the instant, you don't know the fight yet. You don't need a parser to tell you that.