An Alternative? to parsers..

[Dzian]

I'm not asking anyone to kneel. I don't brag about my DPS. Especially because I don't think anything over 90 percentile is worth bragging about. Even 99 percentile isn't worth bragging about. Knowing how to play your class is not worth bragging about. But that's the thing players in the 80-99 percentile have in common - they know how to play their class. If they're in the 50-80 range they probably do as well but might be having trouble with mechanics and/or dying.

Meanwhile you have people in the lower 30-40s. I call them "bad",l

I honestly think it's not quite that easy. Gear plays a massive part and the powercreep the game has is getting steeper and steeper.

What that then means is it's simply not possible for many players to reach the high percentiles. I'm incredibly casual at the minute .my highest job is my i334 paladin still rocking 320 susano weapons. My sam is i327 still sporting a 320 susano weapon. My blm is i323 stilll rocking a 310 verity weapon and couple of 310 accessories.

The point is then that it's going to be impossible for me to reach 80-90 percentile levels of dps. Simply because my gear isn't the best. My blm for might not even hit the 60th percentile rocking it's 310 weapon. It's just an impossibility. It Does not make me a bad player simply one with less time than others.

However if instead of measuring dps you were to measure for example pps potency per second. Then you might find my 60th percentile blm is actually up there in the high 80s maybe even 90s. It's not player skill that's the problem it's simply the power creep of gear.

You then have a scenario where great players appear bad simply because of there gear and available time to play.

It's another reason why my stuff is hidden on logs because people might look at that see me at like 60th percentile and think I'm crap at blm. But it might actually be a good performance with my gear because I'm whacking out a ton of pps and uptime. Just gear and power creep drags it down a lot.