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    Quote Originally Posted by Augury View Post
    The problem with parsers is that it's always assumed that the numbers supplied by them are significant differences without much consideration other than for "power leveling" and DPS, while this game is designed so that there is little permanence thus far promoting almost everything as a viable means of play. The unintended effect of such things is to stigmatize the game community by having players try to sect themselves as "hardcores".
    This is true. The current game has very little use for a parser, because almost nothing you do matters. In an 8 man NM fight, all of your DDS will parse within +- 2% of each other in party contribution unless they are a ranger. It's always DD1 17.5%. DD2 18%. DD3 19%. DD4 10% but they're the ones that start the regimens so they have a lot of inaction time. Mage 1: 20%. Mage 2: 21%. Tank: 1% Healer: 1%. Again, nothing we didn't already know, but the frustrating part is that Mage 1 has a +1 Jade Crook, vintage robe, and blended stats under 100, and mage 2 has a jade crook+3, seer's cowl, and pumped >130 stats in int and pie. Stats and gear almost do not matter. Certainly "subs" don't matter. I can have cure III on my bar if I want and it doesn't my DD output at all while still retaining the ability to cure for 500+ on marauder because I don't need 140 str on marauder to max out its power output.

    However, I think this system's about to get the boot because of the generic battles it's creating. The end of this generic path is--everyone is an archer with cure III and siphon MP. There. Everyone is everything now. Tank. Healer. DD. Everyone's every woman. It's all in them. Get hit? Hit your enmity - skills and let someone else get hit while another archer cure III's you. Win.

    If the stat system tightens up like they already said is a problem, and if the jobs have more of a specific role then those stats and those roles will need to be objectively verified for quality. And in that new system, I think a parser will have more of a function.
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    Last edited by Peregrine; 04-27-2011 at 07:44 PM.