Just a casual talk about parsing in Final Fantasy XIV with what I’ve learned after years of raiding. Hopefully there’s some stuff in here that might help you do more damage in raid if you’re new to the game or still learning!
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0:00 Overview on Parsing
11:25 The Impact of Gearing
19:40 Keeping Uptime
23:19 Improving Your Rotation
32:19 The Perfect Killtime
39:33 Going Further Beyond
45:15 How to Get Started Parsing
52:50 Final Thoughts
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New Viteo dropped, just in time for my afternoon walk.
this was a great one
I appreciate how valuable parsing is as a tool. I really like seeing where I'm at and being able to use it to improve. I usually hover around a blue most of the time and try to improve from there. What I don't like is when people treat it like gospel and use it to judge your worth as a player. A good number is great, but a clear is even better. I'd take a person that's consistently gray, but is always clearing over someone that can pump out pink level damage, but barely clears cause all they want to do is try for the number even before they get their first clear. I've run into many people that work like that, that are still progging the fights long after I clear cause they can't stand to get a gray.
can we all collectively point and laugh and the morons parsing ARR dungeons & posting on Reddit to make fun of new players
As someone who got a rank 27 on P12S as warrior and i can tell that alot of it is BS, killtime heavily affects it and there are some ways that actually playing bad can increase your parse. Plus another thing is someone kills you and not your fault at all then you end up with a meh parse and nothing you could have done about it.
BANNED
Vit is my favourite FF content creator, it's always no nonsense and calmly presented information! I appreciate that so much. I won't be mad if you do FF drama content one day, I trust it would be from a no nonsense and chill perspective hahaha.
Average players have a couple anxieties about this kind of thing. First, hardcore parse-focused players (who sandbag for DPS windows and jockey for rank etc.) aren't the norm. Most people are happy to successfully clear the raid. Second, these ranks are relative, so a lower parse doesn't mean you're "bad" at the game. If every single raider had best-in-slot gear and played perfectly, there would still be people with grey parses, because they'd be compared to other people who did 0.5 more DPS. So don't worry about the nuts & bolts of your performance if you're winning fights and having fun. Like Vit mentions in the conclusion here: parsing is just one tool; it's there to help you reach your goals (improve, have fun, win) if you want it.
This came out just in time! Just recently finished the tier and I want to improve my damage to make it easier for others when I go back to help with clears.
SE is responsible for players still using ACT in such widespread numbers, as is made obvious by there always being someone putting their account at risk to put up logs.
This would not be a problem if they would give out a comprehensive list of which plugins they are okay with. I see people getting banned for ACT, but rude neighbors who use Burning Down the House to float complete eyesores high above their fenceline get a free pass.