Would you like an in-game parser?

[Kaethra]

I have yet to see anyone seriously consider that if a lot of people had struggled to do what they find basic, maybe that thing isn't all that basic after all. People who are good at something generally suck at being unbiased at a thing's difficulty level, because they can't separate their particular talent from the thing being done.

This is untrue. When it comes to damage, I'm usually in the top 3 spots in most PUG content I do. That at least puts me above average and my gear isn't all that great. Yet I know people who without any disability would not be capable of finishing some of the MSQ solo duty's. Meaning unless they committed the bannable offense of letting someone play their account, they would never SEE the content you all are arguing about.

I know that 'basic' things we take for granted are beyond some people. I get that.

But you know what? Am I going to ask SE to make the MSQ easier for those players. Players I even consider long time friends? Absolutely not. Am I going to expect this community to coddle such players (in the event they get 'lucky' and make it to PUG'd content where people are using parsers to measure one another)? Absolutely not.

The reason for this is there is a general baseline expected. In Super Mario Bros. that's akin to getting past the first Goomba. You know there is a ton of people who haven't and cannot do that? Was that fixed? Nope. Sometimes when a game is simply too challenging for a player either because of how bad they are or because of disability, it just simply isn't meant for them.

Ironically, FFXIV isn't one of the easiest MMORPGs out there. Its baseline is quite a bit higher than other games in the genre. Its also one of the more popular games despite having a sub attached. One could argue if they lowered the baseline, it would attract more. Well.. I disagree. The baseline was more or less kept the same from HW to SB, and maybe even raised in some aspects (I'd have loved to see the shenanigans with Shinryu when most were in 290 gear).

But the weird part is how much people get ill around being measured. And the belief that a tool makes people into jerks. People are already jerks. They were a jerk before a parser, with a parser, and even if its banned. The only difference is without parsers the jerks with low parses can blame others for their low outputs. I see this far more often than the high parsing player harassing others. Its a little funny to see the 200DPS> parsing monk in Syrcus Tower complaining about a slow boss when the majority are 500+. I see this happen once a week.

But I'm not allowed to correct him while he harasses people in other alliances. That just doesn't make sense.