In competition with myself: a request for PERSONAL parsers

[Laerune]

I thought people wanted the parsers so they can hold underpreformers accountable for their bad play, a personal parser wont change this.

[RichardButte]

I thought people wanted the parsers so they can hold underpreformers accountable for their bad play, a personal parser wont change this.

I'm first and foremost concerned with being able to hold myself accountable.

But the other thing to consider here is that many players (especially more casual ones) may not even know just how much their DPS can shift by changing which abilities they use and in which order.

Having a little DPS counter on screen that goes up or down will be a constant, non-judgemental educator about how to generally perform better at your class.

Let me put this another way: if I were to say, "Most ________s don't even know how important it is to _________ before starting their rotation.", you could fill in the blanks with any NUMBER of class names and actions and you'd probably be right.

Just having that number there to tell you how much damage you're doing would make players say, "Huh, I did way more that time. What did I do differently...?" on a regular enough basis that they'll learn to be better players over time, probably by the time they hit endgame.

[CosmicKirby]

I thought people wanted the parsers so they can hold underpreformers accountable for their bad play, a personal parser wont change this.

I think a good number of players will, without really even meaning to, start to play better if they notice that certain ways they play result in higher DPS.

Right now, without a parser it's like walking around with a sharp stone in your shoe, but no pain receptors in your foot.
Sure, you'll notice that you're walking funny (going slow), or possibly tripping and limping, (Wiping repeatedly), but unless you feel the stone in there, it's probably pretty difficult to tell the exact cause of why the foot isn't performing. Even if other people are pointing it out, they aren't gonna take off your shoe and remove it for you, you'll have to do it for yourself.

[Eight]

I see no problem with them, if you're on PC just download one and run it but be respectful and if people harass you report them and leave the run. I mean a large majority of PC players are using them now anyways and SE doesn't care unless you're abusing it or harassing people at that point those people can get a ban.

Some of our groups run parsers to improve themselves and honestly our rule is never say anything unless someone asks how they're doing and some of our ps4 players are always asking PC people to tell them because they don't have the option of one.

[Tempest222]

I think a good number of players will, without really even meaning to, start to play better if they notice that certain ways they play result in higher DPS.

Right now, without a parser it's like walking around with a sharp stone in your shoe, but no pain receptors in your foot.
Sure, you'll notice that you're walking funny (going slow), or possibly tripping and limping, (Wiping repeatedly), but unless you feel the stone in there, it's probably pretty difficult to tell the exact cause of why the foot isn't performing. Even if other people are pointing it out, they aren't gonna take off your shoe and remove it for you, you'll have to do it for yourself.

This. I have no interest in top tier content and also know that I'm nowhere near skilled enough for it anyway. I'm not really interested in achieveing robot level perfection and being super competitive. I'm perfectly happy just running the main story stuff, but I would still enjoy a persona parser so I could easily see what works or what doesn't if I'm unsure about when I should be using a certain ability. It would be easier and more fun for people to learn to make improvements through immediatly seeing what's working the best vs having to go read some long winded explantion with charts and graphs about the best possible rotation they could be doing.

Not everyone who doesn't play really well is lazy/doesn't care. I'm sure there are many people who aren't aware they aren't doing well and who would start improving if they had some in game feedback. Of course there will always be some people who just don't care no matter what, but I still think a personal private parser would be benefitial and would help many people improve.