Quote Originally Posted by VelKallor View Post
Something to think about, wouldnt you say?
It for sure does.

Of course, I also have to wonder if you have evidence they absolutely do not use any?

These add-ons can be hidden away, mind you, only very daft people stream with them overlaid over. Some people also tend to hide their chats, so they conveniently put overlays there as well.

Considering you play in Kujata, you likely know that JP is very strict when it comes to those fights, they do things almost procedurally. It's not as reliant on adaptative play like NA/EU tend to be. So that might also have an impact. After all, there's a greater emphasis on minmaxing and pushing yourself to perform better in the Western raiding scene. No one says it's mandatory. No one says they can't clear the fight without them. If anything, and I don't raid so º3º feel free to correct me and elaborate at any time, I remember that the Savage was so hard that they had to lower the HP of a boss to fit for some tanks having issues meeting required damage output? One thing is SE doing it by their own metrics, but people in the West were mentioning how some classes were lagging behind, information measured with these tools. So there is an application for these things, as it at least allows for personal improvement.

Sorry to say but... usually if you want people to respect what you post and actually slam it down on them, it's up to you to provide the evidence. Not "just google it yourself". Because people can just as easily find contradicting evidence, or even nothing due to Google's algorythm. Otherwise? Everything you say can and is questionable, because then the question becomes "where did you get the information"?
I checked FFXIV Census, and it yields... nothing, bc they don't have Ultimate clears as a metric.
I checked Lalachievements, and it yielded that only 0.2% of the population had cleared TOP and have the title. It does not discriminate per region.
I checked XIVCollect and it too yields the same as Lalachievements.
Lodestone apparently would have me check one by one, which I'm sure you didn't do, it'd be far too asinine for anyone to try.

So when you say "By all means, go ahead and check. The results speak for themselves.", I assume you yourself did the research to be so bold and thus would have zero problem sharing your sources? Because sorry, I might be tremendously stupid and I own that, culpa mea, but I can't find that information anywhere.

Same for how JP uses no addons at all. I assume you have such evidence?