They Should Add An Official Damage Meter With One Condition

[Klytania]

An officially supported damage meter should be added, there is no good argument against this. All they need to do is allow people to simply set their damage to private if they can't handle potential criticism or just don't want to mess with it. Same way they did with the adventure plates.

They could even implement the feature with "private" as the default setting.

The information is already flowing that's how the current plug-ins work. All SE would need to do is add an in-game GUI that allows you to access it.

Being able to break down your damage and stats in a meaningful way is basically standard for most games like this, and it's insane that a game as big as XIV just ignores it. There are people I know who I keep trying to get into this game, but they won't because it is missing so many basic features like this.

Virtually nobody would quit because a damage meter was added (as much as they scream on twitter to the contrary, they won't). But more people would be interested in the game if it was updated this way. It's a net positive.

[Oopsy]

No.

https://youtu.be/e_i6mjiGerU?t=260

[Klytania]

No.

https://youtu.be/e_i6mjiGerU?t=260

Yes I've seen it, and I don't care. He's wrong.

You should actually read the post and formulate a thought of your own.

[Oopsy]

So you want to fire Yoshi-P?

[Adamantini]

I've seen what happens when this sort of thing is allowed. So I don't agree.

But why, if it would only show your DPS?

Because people will start demanding that you link your DPS to join a group. For veteran players like me "it doesn't matter". for new players who are just starting to learn "no group for you buddy. Play with the other rejects".

[Skiros]

No.

https://youtu.be/e_i6mjiGerU?t=260

Maybe they should design fights that actually encourage people to not care as much about efficiency then.

Currently the Savage encounters feel like they're catering 100% to FFLogs parsers who chase efficiency over all else.

Fights where you can safely and smoothly get 100% melee uptime, even in mechanics such as Act 2, when they explicitly designed the AoEs to just so give the player a narrow cone wherein they can be max melee from the boss... feels to me to be catering towards the FFLogs parsers.

Stormblood raid design forced enough downtime that people actually cared much less about parsing then because you would need to adjust a LOT of strats to get that uptime. Right now on P4S the only thing you do different is Act 2 for uptime.

It's best for both worlds back then (minus the LB cheese IMO) because parsing actually felt like another difficulty mode where you intentionally use janky strats or eat more damage to get higher numbers. And because it's not quite possible to get high numbers (99+) consistently during a weekly with downtime strats and without the proper comp back then parsing wasn't such a huge deal.

[Klytania]

So you want to fire Yoshi-P?

That's exactly what I said. You are very smart.

[Semirhage]

Or just add one no strings attached. Because the game's toxic casual playerbase shrieking about harassment has been fully mask-off over the last week, and we've all seen they're totally fine with harassment so long as it's directed at those dirty parsers. Let 'em all see how bad their damage is.

[Deveryn]

It's more clutter for the screen, honestly.

Is your item level sufficiently high? Are your melds optimal? Do you have the right food? Are you doing your rotation? Can you do your rotation while dodging mechanics?

Once you answer yes to all these, you're in good shape.

[Oopsy]

I cant think of any arguments better then the ones Yoshi-P made in that clip.

If the content is to hard without a DPS meter then they should lower the DPS requirement.