Quote Originally Posted by Colt47 View Post
It's not against the rules to use a parser. If you use it to harass someone it is, but otherwise you can use them without a problem.

Furthermore, I'm tired of discussions where people demonize the raiding community like they are all pricks. Most of the people who do savage and ultimates are good people to play with and they don't push standards onto anyone in this game. You want some of that go play World of Warcraft, Overwatch, League of Legends, etc.

The issues and frustrations most people have is that not everyone uses discord in these runs, we need better tools to provide learning assistance for people to tackle the content since after all these years we are STILL relying on youtubers to crush content ahead of everyone and make guides. The reason they don't support dps meters is because they shouldn't even be needed to judge performance, but we're ending up doing it anyway because class design doesn't always make it clear what set of moves provides the best progress in a fight.

And as far as end game content goes, savage content is STILL better than most of the content they have released that is grind heavy like Eureka and now Bazja, which had to go through a lot of changes to even be viable since no one would even TOUCH castrum until they modded it for rewards. Just look at Savage DR and tell me how playable that is compared to running EX and Savage? I didn't even DO savage until this expansion and I'm doing it because it is the better content.
Actually yes it is. It's just on a don't talk about it, don't get banned basis.

People demonize a lot of areas of the community, not just raiders; hell, Roleplayers had their fair share of this pie a couple of weeks back. Different people will have different experiences, this opinion is formed on the basis of anecdotal evidence, much as is your statement that "Most of the people who do savage and ultimates are good people to play with and they don't push standards onto anyone in this game".

No, they need better mechanics in-game and an expansion of the Hall of Novice to aid in overcoming the skill disparity between different player groups that don't involve the constant dumbing down of gameplay or classes therein, as they've done since Stormblood. If people need to rely on such resources it is because they aren't in a position where they themselves can problem solve. It is the responsibility of you as an individual and your group as a collective to problem solve, not the necessity of newly developed software.

This is a subjective comment, I prefer Eureka and Bozja to most other content in the game simply because it is a significant time-sink, and a relatively enjoyable process if you think outside the box and don't just grind FATEs for eternity. Bozja and Eureka exemplify what the open world of FFXIV should consist of.