So this game has dps checks but we can't talk about our dps in game?

[Packetdancer]

I am yet to see this happen even once

I got matched into a ~25m in-progress A9N ("The Eyes of the Creator") literally two days ago, and an 18m in-progress of the same about four days before that. (To be fair, that's the only Alexander normal raid I've seen taking that long, but I've seen it do so more than once.)

(A9N = Giant robot arm that eats junk robots dropped into the room to buff itself, where you need to drop power cells on the appropriate floor quadrant to revive the robots and drag them onto the platforms that will fall into lava.)

I've seen a few parties have some real issues on A5N, too, if only one or two people know to -- in the immortal words of some random person I once had in roulette (who blurted this out and then insta-pulled) -- "drink juice become bird" during Boost and the smack-the-ground bit, or to deal with bombs by having a person or two become a gorilla.

I've got mixed feelings on adding a DPS meter in the traditional sense to this game, as I think I've made clear throughout this thread. But that does not mean that folks aren't right that with a lot of new folks coming into the game we haven't seen some older content take longer to clear, particularly if folks get used to being able to faceroll their way through past-chapter 'endgame' content (Crystal Tower, any trial or dungeon rather misleadingly named 'Hard', Void Ark or Weeping City, about 2/3 of the Alexander raids) without worrying about mechanics, and then encounter a fight where suddenly the mechanics do actually have to be respected or the content will just go "LOLNOPE" and wipe you out.

(Though I think a lot of the longer runs of some content are driven less by a lack of DPS, and more -- as noted -- a lack of respect for mechanics. Which is an entirely different problem, for an entirely different thread.)

[xxmiamorecadenza]

I am yet to see this happen even once

Boasting about your own experience but discounting others?

Pft.

[Raoabolic]

Boasting about your own experience but discounting others?

Pft.

That's a two edged sword, who's to say that people are making an issue out of a non issue? That said, you don't need a dps parser to notice the drg or mnk at a hard 8 in the enmity list while the fight has been going on for over 5 minutes.

[Neoyoshi]

Holy tornado......

This thread topics numbers are growing.

[LisSquid]

Holy tornado......

This thread topics numbers are growing.

Yeah, but what's the [B]arse on this thread?

I'll see myself out.

[Packetdancer]

Yeah, but what's the [B]arse on this thread?

I'll see myself out.

We're only parsing blue on TPH (Topics per Hour); I'm sure we can optimize our topical rotation and get to purple if we really try to get distracted and sidetracked more readily.

[Rinhi]

Yeah, but what's the [B]arse on this thread?

I'll see myself out.

we were on our way to a gold barse but the mods hit us with an unavoidable mech and now it's just a low blue, bordering on a grey :/

[Hawuhawuu]

I find the most common thing is to just blacklist the 7 others if you fail a dps check on console. There's no reliable way to tell who or why.

[iWaRTuRTLeS]

Square enix adds content that requires dps or else that 10 minute fight ends in an instadeath, but you cant mention dps in order to help clear it? Ironic.

[Raoabolic]

You don't need a dps tracker to know that your dps isn't cutting it when you are failing dps checks. lol