They Should Add An Official Damage Meter With One Condition

[Kenky]

Good lord, this is still going on?

*checks posts*

And people are still being hostile to each other. Great. Wonderful!

To the pro-parsers: Perhaps start acting civil and stop this petty bickering. Do not resort to snide remarks about "toxic casuals" or "people not up to par" as it completely undermines your claims about how "parsing" would help XIV. (Legal parsing, not FFlogs.)

To the anti-parsers: Stop the bickering. Start being civil to each other and perhaps turn this from a pointless moogle-waving contest into an actual constructive conversation about the pros and cons. Maybe people will find common ground, or better yet, understand why you take different stances!

To all: Remember that there's a LOT of variables in "doing good parses". Such as hardware, latency, player age & reaction times. Not everyone is on a computer with 3080Tis and 20ms ping (at its highest) while being hocked up on Adderall 24/7. Sometimes people just want to lay back on the sofa and decompress after work. Sometimes they may not want to put in 100%, yet still clear fights. Stop trying to turn XIV into a tryhards paradise. It's not built for that.

If you're clearing fights, you have no reason to complain. The only times max-DPS matters is Savage / Ultimates (at current content) and not everyone does that. But that doesn't mean their opinions are invalid.

Hell, people have been parsing in sastasha at level 18. When you physically cannot do "max-DPS". That doesn't stop the ne'er-do-wells. There's plenty of evidence of parsing being used to be toxic people all over the internet. Go have a look. The reasons people have for refusing a parser being in-the-game is warranted.

If the Parser was to ever actually be considered, the community needs to prove it can be trustworthy with it. As it currently stands, it doesn't look like it could be.