Parsing in FFXIV is (FAR) WORSE than you think
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Timestamps:
0:00 Parsing in FFXIV is worse than you think
0:29 My own experience with toxicity
2:21 GEAR MAKES PARSING INVALID
3:58 GREED IS NOT ALWAYS BAD
6:03 Parse Padding in the Past
7:30 False positives and the real problem of it
8:03 Raid DPS
8:30 Why this is busted
9:29 HEALING PARSES ARE A JOKE
10:30 Healer Responsibilities Ahoy
11:57 COHEALER PAIN
14:42 Why this makes healer parses stupid
16:30 Why this hurts other healers
If you’re doing well, having fun and enjoying yourself that’s awesome! But as soon as you start to dump on others, spread toxicity, ridicule and bring others down or use it as a ladder to stomp down others that’s when it becomes a problem. And sadly lately, especially in some spheres and with some people, it’s really become quite vulgar or repulsive even.
To be clear I have no horse in this race, I already have my own static of like minded people that I genuinely love to be around and I’d count all of them as friends! But in terms of parsing toxicity there are a ton of examples I could list but one that shocked me was that I have my boyfriend cohealing with me in my static and then people saying horrific things like they play white mage so they have no brain because screw playing something you just enjoy cause we can’t have that or that because he isn’t parsing orange he will never make it in dragonsong’s reprise or ridiculing this or that. Which is baseline stupid for obvious reasons. But is additionally morel stupid than even that because I am literally close friends to actually a bunch people who have cleared the epic of alexander ultimate that cleared over 5 times with grey parses. But criticizing healers during progression, not farm, progression, for parse numbers is stupid but I’ll save that discussion for later in this video. But you can always tell who has never actually fresh progged as a healer based on how bad their take is.
Parsing in FFXIV is actually significantly worse in a lot of ways than what the community has been speaking about. To be clear I’m not interested in rehashing what others have said because I both agree and sometimes even disagree with some points.
One thing I agree with that isn’t spoken about enough is a lot of the amazing parses you see online is purely because of gear because someone got best in slot early on and the fflogs formula doesn’t discern between item levels. If you have best in slot gear it’s a tremendously large advantage over most casual players raiding say 6 hours a week. People comparing these numbers unironically just come off as uninformed or intentionally biased-- usually to their own advantage since they benefited from this skewed structure.
As an example of what I disagree with, being greedy with melee GCD is not risky when you’re extremely comfortable with the job and what looks risky to someone outside of your static is actually extremely standard practice in your group. Ask most statics with a black mage all about it. And my static I’ve made for dragonsong’s reprise ultimate has two extremely bleedingly edge talented melee and a black mage but what you see might make an everyday PF group crit their pants. So you can be greedy and it be fine, but the question is are you being greedy and actually have the neural prerequisite to execute it, and if you cannot then you’re honestly griefing a group that isn’t practicing optimization runs which is always sad to see. Recently a member of my static was helping a clear for one for ucob where a party member of theirs wiped the group from greeting close to the end. That is one instance of it being pretty sad.
Another thing is that parse runs do exist and that’s something I think is great, if people genuinely enjoy that I say why not? In specifically labelled parse run groups everyone has the same goal and you know you’re going to be wiping as people perfect and fine tune and do those exaggerated strategies and the party will wall if something small goes wrong. That’s fine!
But enough of that, I want to first age myself from zoomer all the way to boomer and talk about parsing in the great old days of my time and I was a contributor to such degeneracy cause in addition to Scholar I was obsessed with Nocturnal Astrologian until square enix decided to haul it to the guillotine and make me sad.
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