How would an optional, official parser be toxic?

[RuleofThree]

The skill gap will never lessen because the devs go about it the wrong way... too afraid to push the bottom players to improve what the devs do is try and drag the top players down closer to them..

content itself also doesnt ask or even incentivise players to improve... you want that shiny mount but the fights a bit tricky.... don't waste time trying to up your game. we'll bring the content down to you... and hand you your shiny mount on a silver platter.

doesn't matter how many tools the devs added unless they changed the content to actually promote player growth and had better rewards to incentivise. its a dud. but again SE wont ever do that instead they'll just keep trying to drag the top players down andfailing miserably to close the gap

I don't know. I'm not sure 99 totems is 'handing a mount on a silver platter.' Shinryu EX for example, on my server you can't even find a farm party for that, let alone a successful one. You aren't getting 99 totems for free, not by a long shot. And getting carried is harder than actually learning the fight. If you are under par, you are going to get bullied and eventually kicked from the group. Even if you do know the fight, and made a few honest mistakes, or just woke up and aren't 100% yet, or just need to shake the rust off, you are going to get chastised or kicked for 'not knowing the fight' or just 'being bad.

Am I arguing the notion that SE isn't pushing lower tier players to up their game a bit? No. I agree with you in some sense, I savage when I can (pugging is hard), so I'd like to consider myself a cut above the rest, had every job half covered in Delta savage gear last patch. Still, to say that they are just 'handing out mounts on a silver platter.' Hmmm...a bit extreme there. I wish, because, like I said, finding farms for Shinryu is hell incarnate.

[Legion88]

I don't know. I'm not sure 99 totems is 'handing a mount on a silver platter.' Shinryu EX for example, on my server you can't even find a farm party for that, let alone a successful one. You aren't getting 99 totems for free, not by a long shot. And getting carried is harder than actually learning the fight. If you are under par, you are going to get bullied and eventually kicked from the group. Even if you do know the fight, and made a few honest mistakes, or just woke up and aren't 100% yet, or just need to shake the rust off, you are going to get chastised or kicked for 'not knowing the fight' or just 'being bad.

Am I arguing the notion that SE isn't pushing lower tier players to up their game a bit? No. I agree with you in some sense, I savage when I can (pugging is hard), so I'd like to consider myself a cut above the rest, had every job half covered in Delta savage gear last patch. Still, to say that they are just 'handing out mounts on a silver platter.' Hmmm...a bit extreme there. I wish, because, like I said, finding farms for Shinryu is hell incarnate.

Dazian is right, just wait for the next expansion and unsync everything you couldn't beat...most things will be very easy then.

[RuleofThree]

Dazian is right, just wait for the next expansion and unsync everything you couldn't beat...most things will be very easy then.

I mean...I guess? But isn't that kind of like comparing apples to oranges? Everything that is pre-current expansion is unsynced eventually. So even if it wasn't a 99 token deal, people could just farm it unsynced until it dropped, loot, and if they don't get it, try again. It being a hard cap of 99 doesn't change its accessibility. To do that, you'd have to get rid of the unsynced feature...which...I am all for in all honesty.