Quote Originally Posted by Penthea View Post
You are actually acting as if considering the abuse of a tool is a bad thing, simply because the tool can be useful. It appears you do not care of the negative affects a parser can have because you are able to laugh it off if it's directed at you. Not everyone is you. Not everyone is confident in their ability, and not everyone understands the game enough to know if they're being wrongly accused of poorperformance.

Some people come to the game to escape and/or relax. Not to be worried about some jerks who are synced down giving them crap for playing a class they're learning or trying to gear up. You may think wanting to prevent this is wrapping people in a blanket, but it's granting a measure of fairness to people to not be judged by a mere glance at some numbers when the reasons for their damage output could very well be completely unrelated to the buttons they're pressing, or justified considering their lack of experience.

Additionally parsers may make lvl sync problematic if sprouts see that their dps cannot compare to lvl 60+ synced players. They may think they are actually doing something wrong when they're not simply because the parser makes it appear so. In a sense the game would be doing parser abuse on its own by potentially making unsynced players look bad.

But apparently looking at the bigger picture equates to swaddling the game in bubble-wrap.
No. I am acting like accentuating the negative aspects and presuming they will overshadow any and all positives is a bad thing. Which, is it. Likewise, what I said is we shouldn't ban a beneficial tool because some people had their feelings hurt. I don't doubt people will take offense. That seems to be the unfortunate norm nowadays. But you don't promote borderline censorship because some people can't handle someone saying mean things to them online. If taken to its logical extreme, I could tell spam you right now. Should we remove the tell feature? After all, I am misusing it to cause harm. And we have established even the mere prospect of hurt feelings is enough reason to overlook any other benefits said feature might provide. Obviously, that would be absurd. You would report and/or Blacklist me. So what does that differ when a parse is involved? Why wouldn't you take the exact same recourse?

Fantastic. They can stay out of harder content. Why should other people have to cater to the whims of someone else who wants to "relax" whilst wasting the time of their party who may not share their same leisurely perspective? Since to mention, Leveling in a separate post. I am specifically referring to EX Primals and Savage. Even if a parse ever did become commonplace, people aren't going to care anymore than they already do about trivial dungeons. You'll see people more vocally point out a lack of Healer DPS or AoE but nothing in the realm of "omg, Samurai sucks for dungeons!" It just isn't going to happen enough to be worth mentioning. Regardless, people advocating for parses generally want them in harder content, not dungeons. And that's where the issue lies. I don't appreciate someone wasting my time because they couldn't be bothered to learn a proper rotation yet still chose to join a Suzaku EX farm party.

Common sense still prevails. Even a sprout ought to pick up quickly a max level player is going to do far higher damage. In fact, it opens up an opportunity to ask. Shock horror, I know, but people are surprisingly more helpful than this forum likes to give credit. Furthermore, an in-game would likely be something people have to turn on themselves. Therefore, a new player wouldn't even see it until later on. Could someone heckle them about low damage? Sure. They can do so right now. I know someone in this very thread who bailed on a dungeon because someone claimed they were new. No parser. They just didn't want to deal with a new player.

You aren't looking at the bigger picture. What you've said can essentially be boiled down to "someone could have their feelings hurt!" Hence why you're bubble-wrapping the game.