How would an optional, official parser be toxic?

[HyoMinPark]

I've read that some people used to use Dummies to calculate dps, not sure how it worked but maybe that can be used.

Dummies are great to practice your rotations on, sure, but not to calculate your DPS because dummies have much more health on them in order to make up for the fact that you're not dodging mechanics.

Additionally, the dummies do not take into account any sort of raid buffs, with heavily influence the amount of personal DPS a player is doing. Especially for some jobs that are reliant on others for a portion of their damage (e.g., BRD/MCH are reliant on a DRG for 5% of their damage; BRD is reliant on DRG/SCH for crit buffs; etc.).

How are practice parties or first time clear parties treated in NA? Do players get kicked immediately before the raid even starts because they are vetted through FFlogs?

I agree there should be some performance expectations on farm groups.

On NA, people doing learning/clear parties in PF, and state the amount of progress required to enter (e.g., fresh prog; blind prog; add phase; final phase; enrage clear). After they clear, they generally do farm parties (also in PF) stating “FARM” and usually naming the strat being used.

Players that set up the farm parties right automatically exclude those who haven’t cleared by selecting the appropriate PF options (Duty Complete); for those who don’t set it up properly to exclude bonuses, if they zone in and see a bonus, they ask who has the bonus. They can either opt to help the person, or they exit out of the duty and automatically disband the entire party. It tends to be the latter, as the party was set up for the purpose of farming (as stated in the description), and the person who hasn’t clear snuck into the party without being honest that they hadn’t cleared the content—the person with the bonus usually tends not to speak up regardless, so that doesn’t help.

I am hesitant to help people who sneak into farms, because every time I have, they have clearly never been to enrage as they claim and they are more so of a hinderance to the progression of the farm. I remember pugging Sigmascape and in V6S the weekly 2-chest group I was in had a RDM join who had “seen enrage”, and then proceeded to die to every mechanic. Eventually they were just left dead on the floor because it was too much on the healer’s MP to continue raising them.