Would you like an in-game parser?

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The person who may not be performing very well and potentially causing wipes due to not doing enough damage might be having fun but they are not considering how the other people within the duty feel at all. Someone mentions being happy after clearing it after numerous tries but whats says the other people are happy as well? The amount of people I see chat about how horrible something went even though they cleared it but they would have preferred not having numerous silly wipes. When I enter DF content I try my hardest because I don't want silly wipes happening such as not meeting DPS checks and I want people to have a somewhat smooth experience.

Let me nip something in the bud right here. When you do this, are you having fun? Do you consider what you are doing "effort" or "work"? People have very different definitions of these terms. Me? I've been playing MMOs for years-- since the original Everquest. I don't sit around and do nothing in a fight. I don't find that "fun" so I am always doing something whether it be DPSing or healing thus what I do all the time doesn't really seem like "effort" on my part either. On days when I am feeling particularly good, I may walk a dangerously low mana level so much that the bards I get in the group panic and turn on Mage's Ballad even though I'm used to starting boss fights and lasting through them while DPSing and healing with less than 15% of my mana pool. On days when I'm sick or feeling tired after a long day, I may not go quite so low and I may even do the occasional stupid mistake like forgetting to Esuna the tank when he gets hit with the hammer in the froggie boss.

Is that one mistake going to wipe the group? Hell no. Have I been called out on the one time it happened? Yup. We laughed it off as the tank happened to be a DRK and he was actually glad he got a chance to replenish his MP. Would some people rage at this one mistake? I'm sure there are a few who would. People aren't perfect. This is a video game. It's not real life and people don't need to get so wound up about little details. I don't like taking things super seriously in video games. That's what real life is for. This doesn't mean I'm spamming blizzard 1 on my black mage and it doesn't mean I'm sitting around twiddling my thumbs on full mana on my whm.

I said it earlier in this Topic. If you are getting harassed or being told your DPS is too low instead of having a fit just improve a little its not that hard but people who are against parser make it seem like it's so much work but its not you just read up on a rotation and what you do after the Opener simple. Learning your job doesn't make you some elite or hardcore it just shows that you understand your job to a level that most people would like.

I don't want a public parser because I don't want to be a slave to numbers. I'm not a competitive person and I really don't care about whether I'm 100 dps above or below the next white mage. I don't want people shoving numbers in my face like they're supposed to be some delicious tidbit. Hell, even if they were delicious I don't want them crammed down my throat. With open parsers, people will talk about numbers. It's only natural to talk about something right in front of your face. It's like the weather. But that would make me feel uncomfortable... like someone talking to me about politics or religion (two topics I hate discussing in real life).

And I'm sorry, but I really don't care enough about spending minutes or however long it takes looking up some "perfect" set up to get you through your dungeon 30 seconds faster. Proparsers keep saying "Oh! What about my enjoyment! It's not fun to fail dps checks!" and I'll agree with you there for the most part, but what about "Hey, it's not fun for me to have to spend several minutes of my time to increase some number I don't even care about some arbitrary amount to make you happy when I'm, in all likelihood, not going to see you again, so please, stop just assuming that we're all people who think spamming Impulse Drive in Shiva's rear end on DRG with Internal Release up is our definition of "fun."

Again, do I care if you use a parser to rate and improve yourself? No, have at it. Do I care if people on PS4 were able to download something to parse themselves only? No. By all means. Just don't get me involved unless I ask you. But when people come on the forums and say things like:

When you just want entertainment without any effort, playing a game is not the right thing for you. You should sit back and watch only, like in the quiz show example above.

I have to wonder if they're taking things a little too seriously. I mean really? Any game? I consider my play style "fun" and fairly "effortless" therefore I can't even play Minecraft or Monopoly? Really?