Would you like an in-game parser?

[Seraphix2407]

See my reason above.
The more we focus on damage numbers, the more DPS checks we'll have, so we'll focus moreon damage, for more DPS checks, etc...

There is already DPS checks and the reason's we want parsers is because many can't even forfill them.

I played FFXI too, I was one of the first people to legit kill AV too after it got fixed. Comparing FFXI to FF14 is a bit hard to do, because FFXI had no balance of classes, you know how it was. NIN was supose to be DPS, they ended up being tanks, RDM could RDM/NIN end game tank at 75. The job system was pretty much unbalanced and broken that people adjusted and played them however they wanted. In FF14 things are linear and you follow that linear rotation, depending on fights you adjust to situations and adapt your dps to mechanics. But the rotatin itsself linear. So are the fight's so you should know when and what you should do. I never tried 1.0 FF14 sadly but wish we kept some of it after all the things I've heard.

But don't get me wrong, I somewhat understand you but same time you make it sound like parser is a cancer and is going to kill a whole game because of the ''toxic'' it can cause. If toxic is the problem you are afraid of, the game would been dead by that logic many uses(not saying you do). There is alot more problems in the game than parser can ever cause.

I think a good step towards helping people is SE actually gives gated content, in form of DPS checks to enter the place, like how Faust wrecks people in M1. Give them some better understanding on their classes, because we all there is not much of it already. Add content that doesn't have super big gap between 24man raid vs extremes and savage. Midas normal is somewhat faceroll content but then sadly we know many can't even do those. Things like these steps would help as well, but then again having a parser doesn't only give out numbers. They give info healers, tanks and dps want. If people can analize their own data they could also see what went wrong or not. Many go around thinking they do fine but when they get told by their good friend they are more shocked than surprised.