Anyone know of DPS Parsers?Follow

BTW, also getting the 404 error when trying to d/l your website's APP.

The downloads are hosted on google docs, the error appears to be on their end right now, but I'll shoot a message to Icehunter (the guy who runs it).

Thanks :)



Also this lol

I don't believe that the one leads inexorably to the other.

I do understand what you're saying about the guy taking LFR entirely too seriously. But even without Recount, that'd be the guy madly spinning his camera around watching for anyone standing in the wrong spot or anyone who stops their rotation for a second to scratch their nose. My point is, he'd find a way even without the tool.. and the tool can be used for good in spite of him.

I do remember in FFXI (even though it had an out-of-game parser available) a time when MNK was considered awful, entirely because it didn't put out huge sexy numbers like BLM did. People couldn't tell that the MNK was doing good damage, because it was coming in smaller chunks than the BLM.

Parsers also help keep the devs honest. When you can point to hard data to explain a problem with class balance, it's much more likely to be listened to.



And that's fine. Play the game the way you want to play it, nobody can tell you you're wrong (legitimately). But understand that if you're trying to do more serious progression, that your performance DOES matter. If you don't want to deal with that, just don't enter that environment.

It's going to boil down to playing with people who share your viewpoint on the subject. Surrounding yourself with hardcore players and complaining that everyone is hardcore is just silly.

Thanks for the necro bump, I was thinking about this earlier... I wish that we had a PS3 parser... I would love to see how I am doing, this is my first time as a DPS in any MMO.

Anyone on PC want to run a dungeon with me to give me the feedback?

I don't see how it being in the game or not affects the outcome. FFXI had one outside and boy you are wrong if you think it didn't need it.

The mass amount of theorycrafting that occurred after the amalgamation of data collected from parses really pushed FFXI into a new...era, you could say. You went from kiting Kirin for 2 hours to knowing just how much ACC you needed to beat the poo out of him with a bunch of melee in ~2 minutes.

I like being able to know if the DPS are going to be able to handle DPS check fights in advance. I would also like to know that, if I'm in a FATE group, that DPS #7 is AFKing through most of it and therefore not contributing anything to the group.

WoW also doesn't have an 'in-game' parse so to speak. They are more friendly with third party software and addons, though, so it's easy to incorporate one into your UI.

BTW: If you think this 'hatred' is exclusive to WoW and hasn't already infected this community, I have some really unfortunate news for you. :\ Garuda HM fight. This guy was tanking for the first time. Did a great job on the first attempt but look how things turned out:

http://i.imgur.com/umRV3aQ.jpg

Not the first Garuda I've seen turn out that way. No DPS parses needed. lol

Edited, Oct 4th 2013 9:02pm by HitomeOfBismarck

FFXI's ToS never allowed third party software to run along the game I believe. Still you had plenty of people who would use third party software with it like FFAssist or Windower which had plentiful of plugins that changed the gameplay. Xbox and PS2 users never got to use any of those.

its not only to see how much dps you are dealing and whether there is an increase or not you can also use it for gauging hate knowing how much you can push dps before you steal aggro from the tank knowing what spells will stack with other class/job spells and finding out whether its worth using the spell and wasting mana or if a different spell would be better or if it would be better to use the mana on a utility spell instead it helps you learn how to play your class better so that when you raid leader says for you to do certain things you know how to make it happen it can also help with Crowd controllers in watching the average drop time for the CC spell or if its lasting as long as it should i.e. when to recast without wasting mana and possibly getting the group/raid wiped