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

[Slayer25c]

Without third party tools tell me exactly how you would be able to suggest, or even observe areas that need improvement?


-Combat log is unreliable.
-There's no fight history.
-No offensive buff tracker.
-No defensive buff tracker.
-Tracking stats doesn't exist.
-Damage down debuffs have no value associated with them.




You would literally have to manually calculate total potencies of every single job, then compare them to each other, then calculate every single potency interaction in the game just to get a grasp on what could be considered "playing right."




Furthermore, it is pretty blatantly obvious the devs themselves use FFlogs/ACT statistics in regards to balance. There really is zero reason to attempt to make these tools "taboo" outside of wanting to avoid percieved toxicity (which still exists anyways.)

Why would they use fflogs when they have the numbers

[Packetdancer]

Why would they use fflogs when they have the numbers

Because if someone else is conveniently already collecting the real-world numbers for you and running the analysis on them, you'd be a fool not to take those into account as well when doing any tuning. Who's going to sneer at additional data? Square-Enix would be far from the only company that takes such things into consideration.

(Source: used to work as a video game developer, before crunch time culture began to slowly crush the life from my soul.)