Built-in Parsers

[Dzian]

And a good parser should tell you where it came from. It should tell you all the damage you do (both damage you do directly and that you do by buffing other players' attacks). It should tell you everything that affects that damage, including splitting out what portion you're fully responsible for and what portion you only got because of someone else's buffs/debuffs.

That doesn't mean it has to tell you about other damage you're not even involved in.

All of these should be listed:

• You got X amount of damage directly
• You added Y amount of damage to other players' attacks with your buffs/debuffs
• You got Z amount of additional damage due to buffs/debuffs from other players
• The damage you were involved in was: (X+Y+Z)
• Your total damage contribution was: (X+Y)

But what should not be included is:

• Teammate So-and-So got W amount of damage

You've kind of proven my point which is. that all these people that ask for just a personal parser specifically say they don't want top see what the rest of the party is doing. and yet your list above only goes to prove that in order to get an accurate assessment of your personal DPS you DO need to know what the rest of the party is doing. because you need to know those important pieces of information you labelled as "Z" and a personal parse cannot tell you that because in order to get Z you need information about the rest of the party.

What you alos fail to realise is that even if you provide Z without providing the rest of the parties actual dps. it wont solve any of the issues your trying to fix by hiding there dps in the first place. because players will look at Z and call out the rest of the party.
"yo ninja you suck you only contributed 0.5% of my dps what the hell you playing at? do you even know what trick attack is?"
"yo ast you know what cards are right so why are you only accounting for 1% of my dps...."

that's really no different at all than " yo ninja your dps sucks"

You simply cannot in anyway have a personal only parse that doesn't tell you about the rest of the party because without "Z" any numbers you get are absolutely worthless and incomaparable.
and in asking for Z you are asking for information about the rest of the partys performance and as such that parse is no longer personal...

I think this is a big part of why Yoshi says no. because the player base doesn't have a clue what they're asking for . we want a personal parse but we want information about how the rest of the party contributes to be included.... total contradiction.

I fully agree with Yoshis stance. not because i'm anti parser. but because the general playerbase simply doesn't know how to use them and interpret the information correctly. which is proven by the sheer amount of people that believe they can make accurate assessments with only a fraction of the information.