Quote Originally Posted by thegreatonemal View Post
that IS an mmo issue.
All game are not the same...
When you go on versus fighting game, for the hardest fight, or PvP one, yo uhave to master your character, his combos.
When you go on RTS game, you have to know well each of your own units, how they are countered by ennemies units, how to counter ennemies units.
When you go to FPS, you know each weapon, what you can do with each, which to snipe, which to close fight. and you have to train your aiming (nothing in the game directly train your aiming, only you)


FFXIV and most MMORPG get tutorials. the leveling is a tutorial. you get a skill, a second, then you learn to play with both. a third skill come, and you have to understand how those 3 work together, then after many levels you get 20 skills, and some of those you had in begining did change a little. There is tutorial. But you know what, after understanding what is the best rotation (and it is confirmed by... parsers) you have to master it. and adapt on all fight (i am not doing strictly the same thing on all fight. some didnt need me to move a lot, other yes. but as BLM, when i move... )


The parser is not needed to know how to play the game, the parser is needed to know how to master your job !
Then yes some people needs guide to understand how to play their job... back in ARR i remember a paladin tanking a dongeon... spamming flash and halone... nothing else.

But when people always needs some guide to get at least a decent work (i dont ask the samurai to do 6k8 like the 75th percentile, but, please at least a 6k not 4k...) the matter is not mine, it is their matter. If they come to a content not ready enough, they waste the time of the 7 other people that TOOK the time, before the content, to be ready...


the parser is not a solution to the lack of steps of learning. but it stays a tool to master your job more, more and more. the same guy working with parser will progress faster than without... Because he will faster and more clearly know what are his mistakes