I agree with some of what you said. You know when I do expert roulettes, sometimes I do it with random people sometimes I don't.
When I do it with random's I'm sure it will be a slower run, unless I get into a premade party or a very good party of mixed players from different servers. However, it doesn't matter if it's random or not, because I will still play my best. When I do something, I want to get in and out fast, simply makes me avaible to do other things before I have to log out. And yes, not everyone ''needs'' a parser, there are bunch of people who barely do any expert roulettes and such things, but I doubt those people will be casted out. You know, even if those people barely do expert roulettes, doesn't mean they doing it everyday, many prefer to RP, sit in limsa and hang out with their linkshell/fc or their friends in general for example. If they get in roulettes, okay so what if they do 100-200 dps less, myself and others talk about dropping down 50% in roulletes (since you happened to mention it, so I need to reply to this) Just because you don't often do battle content or roulettes, doesn't mean you are allowed to slack 50% of what actuall can do, much as it's not okay for a guy with a parser to harras them.
Oh trust me, many people get advices on their way, they just ignore them, I could list up many examples of what I've seen and done for other players. One of them being my BRD friend, I did roulette with her and she didn't use the stance to do more DPS, wanna know why? Because she wanted to move while doing DMG, is it acceptable? My opinion? no, not really. When you do expert roulette and 450 dps as BRD and just want to make dodgin easier for you, simply because you refuse to use stance? Doesn't work like that. The class after all is designed to use the stance, because you have more cds on the stance.
Well good thing she changed it when I told her she has to keep it up.
But I will ask you a question. Have you ever thought about why people get's told their dps is low? I talk about 30-50% lower than they could be.
If you want to slack in a party of mine, you shouldn't even be in it after all. If you go in a group of people with same mindset of slackers, things will happens, like not even being avaible to clear it. Put 4 dps at 950 dps in seph extreme, tanks at 500-700 and healers at zero, it would enrage. Just because one of those dps killed it in another group doesn't mean they will kill it in a group with people who does low as them.
Why/how is PLD a dps penality? Have it ever come to your mind people still wipe in seph extreme with 230 weapons and still do low as people who did them with 210 weapons? If 7PLDs could do it nearly 2 months ago, I don't see why a normal group can't do it. But hey it happened, how do we let them improve? Put them on the dummystrike for 3min and hope they beat it? Then if they do, then you see no change in battle. When people judged me using their parser, I knew something was wrong. I didn't sit there and think that I was doing okay just because someone told me I was doing low, it's the opposite, I needed to improve. If there is a thing that could show a large playerbase that they slack, the slackers can no longer backup what they say. Many think they doing good until they see with their own eyes. Oh trust me, many do try to help but people gets all emotional and say they don't need any. And if a parser happens and they still all slack (30-50% lower they should be) then you can no longer help them and they just sit there and expect free runs. /sadface.