In Defence of DPS meters.

[ReiMakoto]

And this reply is why they are against it. Your assumption is that someone who is struggling is lazy, but there could be a myriad reasons why they are having issues that have nothing to do with laziness. They are a new player, they are new to the role, they are new to the fight, they take a long time to learn fight mechanics for whatever reason, they are disabled, their mouse/controller glitched, they got cramp etc and so on. I am not denying the existence of lazy players but the fact that it is your first assumption is very much the reason that parsers aren't allowed

I am not denying the usefulness of parsers to improve one's own gameplay either, I am pointing out that we are the reason why parsers are banned. Maybe if we stop behaving like knobs and treat other people respectfully (including not assuming I'm a guy, which is really starting to annoy me lol) then we might get our private parsers one day.

Im gonna be real, the lazy comment was more aimed at the other systems that have changed/ not been implemented, such as the Devs saying BLU would be hard because players would turn up only with water cannon, or the change of the cross role system because players were turning up to challenging content without essentials like quelling strikes and such. But to break down further, the lazy comment was more aimed at lazy not to report people as thats what its for. Also to be honest though yeah, lazy is the right word, if I'm level 80 running level 80 content and someone doesn't know how to string abilities together even on a class where combo's literally light up, I'm saying its lazyness, no amount of new to the fight covers it (especially if they turn up in a farm)

[Jimmymagic]

OK your not talking about laziness your responding about incompetency. Big difference.
Parsers will not work because people will use it to troll regardless of competency or laziness. They understand the potential of vile disdain players will take out on other for (pick your reason or none at all). Although the idea on paper I like implementing would bring to much headache.

Being level 80 has nothing to do with knowing your class hence skip potions and roulette and your at 80 in couplet of days.

Last night I did Prae on an alt to clear ARR and the other tank was level 70 and never mt or did the dungeon before Story skip level boost. Did ok but didn't use cd much so I mt instead. Point being Level does not mean you know rotations.

[ForteNightshade]

OBeing level 80 has nothing to do with knowing your class hence skip potions and roulette and your at 80 in couplet of days.

This is a poor excuse. I have SMN at 75, and despite having never played it until recently, I still took the time to look up the opener and getting a working understanding of how it all flows. I certainly won't be a top tier SMN but when I get it to 80, I'll at least be competent. If you're taking a job into Savage and have absolutely no idea what you're doing. That's poor laziness. You simply didn't care enough to practice beforehand.

[Jimmymagic]

This is a poor excuse. I have SMN at 75, and despite having never played it until recently, I still took the time to look up the opener and getting a working understanding of how it all flows. I certainly won't be a top tier SMN but when I get it to 80, I'll at least be competent. If you're taking a job into Savage and have absolutely no idea what you're doing. That's poor laziness. You simply didn't care enough to practice beforehand.

Thank you for proving my point lev 75 smn and you wont be top tiered because your lazy. Again being high level does not matter with knowing the job. Practicing has to do with knowing rotations how and when to implement depends on competency. Also im not referring to Savage, if I was the only way to get competent party is static. PUGing it is a waste of time. But hey go ahead and lookup videos all you want. Your learn form doing not from watching imo.

[ForteNightshade]

Thank you for proving my point lev 75 smn and you wont be top tiered because your lazy. Again being high level does not matter with knowing the job. Practicing has to do with knowing rotations how and when to implement depends on competency. Also im not referring to Savage, if I was the only way to get competent party is static. PUGing it is a waste of time. But hey go ahead and lookup videos all you want. Your learn form doing not from watching imo.

... what? I proved the precise opposite. No one expects top tier performance. What they want is competence—which is easily achievable if you dedicated even a little bit of time on a dummy. And no, you can learn a great deal from simply watching videos and then going to an aforementioned dummy to practice. Not doing even that is pure laziness.

I've also pugged this whole tier just fine. Statics are obviously better but you'll still clear. Regardless, Savage should never be where you're learning the basics of your job.