Quote Originally Posted by Heart-of-Asia View Post
After the Shirogane patch first came out I was a few days late to doing one of the new dungeons. Ended up in there with a healer that hadn't done the dungeon either. Was trying to adjust to SMN changes on top of trying to REMEMBER dungeon mechanics from the video I watched prior to entering. I ended up raising the healer on several occasions along with other party members. The tank got really nasty with me and asked me why I wasn't doing enough DPS cause they were parsing. I legit haven't been in a dungeon since. Very demotivating.
This a good argument for my belief that any in game parsing should be at the individual player level. During my early years in that other game I used recount and skada after I learned about them from some other players. They helped me learn where I was having problems and get to a point I could hold my own. However I only used them for myself or with members of my family and friend guild. I also saw them used in PUGs as a means to grief or scapegoat people which I would not want to see here. The problem is to is too easy for people to take the low road in PUGs with fully sanctioned parsing. I think the only reason it hasn't gone that way in FFXIV is SE's saying it is against the TOS but only taking action if it is abused. As to how to handle the more serious players and statics, what's wrong with the current method or using an external site to aggregate the data? It seems to me the methods are there to accommodate the current player base without the toxicity that the other game has in relation to parsers.