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Aerlana

Dygz wrote: »

LMAO
Not including DPS meters will reduce toxicity and promote more focus away from numbers and onto actual tactics and combat behaviors.

So naiv, such innocence...
Good to see you believing it. but i am sad to learn you that this is false... While people uses parser to justify their toxicity... Parsers also avoid a lot of toxic behaviour. Having parser or not just change the kind of toxicity we see... On one side, the false-elite considering that while it does better than 75% of the other player, it can decide who is good enough. On the other side, there is fest of people that don't care doing a decent work, and just come in raid to be carry. . .

but the false-elite, we can use parser to learn them their place and strike their ego... The other one (the "carry me and shut your mouth") i didn't find a way to get rid of them... instead finding a good guild, and avoiding as much as possible pickup, avoid doing stuff outside of your own guild/alliance.

Dygz wrote: »

Steven's already seen what he's need to see.

It doesnt change what he says is totally, factually false

poggy

ok thread is about DPS meters so i will give my opinion on that and will also touch on a few other topics that are not for this thread .for people to know where i am coming from i feel i need to give a little background as to why i feel the way i do and have the view i have .i have been playing games a very long time and with that i have seen it all and then some dkp ,padding dkp ,was even an officer that had my dkp padded lol ,on of my first mmo pc online games was everquest all i remember is corpse runs i have also been a guild master with two accounts on said game in which was one of the first gamers i seen botting rampent and have spotted it in many mmo's since in case some people don't know botting is running a macro that loops theres more to it but thats the gist of it. i have casual raided and hardcore raided i never forgot the half geared people that got me there with that being said i have helped many people gear up in many games which brings me to how i know some players turn toxic refuse to help others once they get their gear.which brings me to gear . i had more fun raiding with the lesser geared people then i ever had hardcore raiding one guild went in with greens and blues on and killed evereything i loved being a part of that as the epic geared guild would wipe on trash these lesser geared people would execute flawlessly while haveing fun / the laughter on ventrillo teamspeak and now discord is what i live for anymore .you can be the best geared in the game that doesn't make you a good player .>period< reminds me of a guy i shared convo's in ventrillo with him and his girlfriend he would take off all his gear and and beat epic geared players with just his daggers.which brings me to said topic, i use DPS meters for *ME* not for you not for raid leaders not for showing off how good er bad i am i use them for me myself and I have spent hours going over logs in raids . i myself like DPS meters but also know they can be abused or misinterpreted as has been said in thread already many do not know how to read such information and leads to toxicity and whatnot.with all that being said this is turning into a tldr if you have read my comment this far kudo's to you :-) i know i can't write so i tend to stay quiet,but this is a subject near and dear to my heart (gaming) i wish you all the best in your endevors signed poggy

Noaani

poggy wrote: »

ok thread is about DPS meters so i will give my opinion on that and will also touch on a few other topics that are not for this thread .for people to know where i am coming from i feel i need to give a little background as to why i feel the way i do and have the view i have .i have been playing games a very long time and with that i have seen it all and then some dkp ,padding dkp ,was even an officer that had my dkp padded lol ,on of my first mmo pc online games was everquest all i remember is corpse runs i have also been a guild master with two accounts on said game in which was one of the first gamers i seen botting rampent and have spotted it in many mmo's since in case some people don't know botting is running a macro that loops theres more to it but thats the gist of it. i have casual raided and hardcore raided i never forgot the half geared people that got me there with that being said i have helped many people gear up in many games which brings me to how i know some players turn toxic refuse to help others once they get their gear.which brings me to gear . i had more fun raiding with the lesser geared people then i ever had hardcore raiding one guild went in with greens and blues on and killed evereything i loved being a part of that as the epic geared guild would wipe on trash these lesser geared people would execute flawlessly while haveing fun / the laughter on ventrillo teamspeak and now discord is what i live for anymore .you can be the best geared in the game that doesn't make you a good player .>period< reminds me of a guy i shared convo's in ventrillo with him and his girlfriend he would take off all his gear and and beat epic geared players with just his daggers.which brings me to said topic, i use DPS meters for *ME* not for you not for raid leaders not for showing off how good er bad i am i use them for me myself and I have spent hours going over logs in raids . i myself like DPS meters but also know they can be abused or misinterpreted as has been said in thread already many do not know how to read such information and leads to toxicity and whatnot.with all that being said this is turning into a tldr if you have read my comment this far kudo's to you :-) i know i can't write so i tend to stay quiet,but this is a subject near and dear to my heart (gaming) i wish you all the best in your endevors signed poggy

I vote this post *hardest to read on the whole forums*.

Anyone else have any other contenders?

Aerlana

poggy wrote: »

*here is a long post with average ponctuation, and all in one monolithic block*

Ty for taking the tame to share your opinion and explain what is your own experience around it...

But... when you do a forum post, remember to spread more you text, making paragrpahs even for 2-3 sentences only.
Just do this and your texts will be far more easy to read.

Dygz

Aerlana wrote: »

It doesn't change what he says is totally, factually false

Steven has more proof than what you can provide.
Your assertions are not at all convincing.
You can believe the world is flat if you want to.

Noaani

Dygz wrote: »

Aerlana wrote: »

It doesn't change what he says is totally, factually false

Steven has more proof than what you can provide.
Your assertions are not at all convincing.
You can believe the world is flat if you want to.

No he doesnt.

He has no proof.

You and he are the ones believing the world is flat, the rest of us have solid proof that combat trackers do not inherently introduce toxicity, and that toxicity can exist in large amounts without combat trackers.

Tou are just reducing to even look at the evidence - much like a flat earther.

Aerlana

Dygz wrote: »

Steven has more proof than what you can provide.

Hum... wait just little

Question: Is ACT a 'DPS Meter'?
Yes and no.

ACT somewhat predates the popularization of the term in games such as WoW, so it's hard to say yes. If you assume a DPS Meter's primary role is as a small widget that calculates your DPS, I would have to say no. ACT's developmental goal was never to spit out easy to get DPS numbers. It was meant as a raid analysis tool. Encounter to encounter player comparison is merely a side effect of obtaining that goal.

Player culture has demanded that it fill that role, but I always intend for ACT to be a tool which allows you to analyze and better understand the game it is connected to.

I actually scoff at the term 'DPS Meter' in its most immediate meaning and get somewhat annoyed when ACT is referred to as one. If that's what you use it for, that's fine, but it's not the intended purpose even if features that follow that role have been added for completeness.

This is in the FAQ of ACT,
ACT is a third party program that collect data from the fights. then it show them in form of statistics, of graphics, and many other things. ACT was born on everquest 2... older game than wow.
Now there is act for many different game, it is the main used parser for FFXIV

ACT was created in 2005. So i think that when steven says

Back in the day, when MMOs were great,

it implies he speaks about MMORPG before 2004? (And i didnt do any search, maybe everquest or DAoC already had their own parser...

Also, ACT in the LONG list can do some sound warning at time you preset yes... a feature many don't use. But now, let's looking for a parser without such feature. . . Oh maybe ... oh yes, XIVapp for FFXIV !

let's move to another game with lot of people... WoW

Recount, Details, Skada, TinyDPS = the 4 most used parsers in wow. It is totally impossible to use any of them for anything else collecting data.

So yes, what Steven says is false. Steven says that with such tools will show us what to do instead of playing the game

'Oh! We need to do exactly this.' Instead, you actually had to be present, you had to watch what was happening, you had to help your fellow guild members learn how to play the game and you had to excel as a group

he thinks he speak about DPS meter, and i really trust he thinks this, but it remains false, because he speaks about "boss mods"

ACT can do this, but you have to configurate this yourself. so while it says you what to do during fight, you have to find yourself at first what to do in the fight, say to ACT "at this timing/at this attack, do a sound" and then, yes... ACT will do what you ask.

The real bossmods, those that says players what to do without doing anything for this i have 2 main examples in WoW :
Deadly Boss Mods and BigWigs
THOSE two addons fit perfectly to what i did quote from steven.

Here are my factual proofs.
DPSmeter/Parser =/= boss mods, steven speaks about program/addon saying what to do during fight ? he speaks about boss mods, while parser will says "you did 3000 DPS on this try, and 2500 on previous try"

i did list the 2 most used third party program that does parser in FFXIV, neither has an automated "do this" in fight. One you can do some configuration to have sound signals, the other, you can't.
I did list the 4 DPS meter i know in wow, the 4 that are mostly used (maybe there is others but... never heard about them in 16 years) No one of those do what steven says...
I finally did list the 2 addon in wow people use to have announcement during the fight about what to do.

And i don't ask you to trust me about what they can do or not. Just google their name, you will see directly information about them.

Now, i did show proofs. What are yours ? What are Steven's proof he showed you to prove he is right ?

Or maybe... did you see any of those proof ?

Oh and while doing this post, i finally searched about this "personnal combat tracker" you speak about, didnt find it on the wiki. was even stated that ... would not exist, nor be allowed as third party program. . .

Noaani

Aerlana wrote: »

(And i didnt do any search, maybe everquest or DAoC already had their own parser...

They did.

There were trackers for EQ in the 1990's, and I do not believe EQ was the first game to have them.

The whole "back before DPS meters" argument really is just an argument from a point of ignorance. It is really just an argument about how that person thought things were happening in a game before that person knew about combat trackers. If they were taking on top end content, they would have known about them, but rather, they saw others doing it, didn't know about combat trackers, and made assumptions on how things were being done.

Aerlana wrote: »

he thinks he speak about DPS meter, and i really trust he thinks this, but it remains false, because he speaks about "boss mods"

ACT can do this, but you have to configurate this yourself. so while it says you what to do during fight, you have to find yourself at first what to do in the fight, say to ACT "at this timing/at this attack, do a sound" and then, yes... ACT will do what you ask.

The real bossmods, those that says players what to do without doing anything for this i have 2 main examples in WoW :
Deadly Boss Mods and BigWigs
THOSE two addons fit perfectly to what i did quote from steven.

This is all true.

The thing is, since we are asking for a combat tracker built in to the game, Steven could just build one that doesn't have even have the functionality that ACT has - as limited as it is in this regard.

That makes this whole argument completely detached from the actual proposal made, and thus pointless to even bring up.

Dygz

LMAO
That is not really proof.
You are giving examples of your perspective about the info the tools provide and sharing your mistaken impression of the info Steven thinks the tools provide.
Which has really nothing to do with proving whether restricting DPS meters will significantly reduce toxicity.
You have an opinion. Steven and the devs have their opinions.
If you can convince Steven and the devs to change their opinions, great! But it's highly unlikely that you will be able to do so.

Steven doesn't mean that DPS meters have an automated "do this in the fight".
Steven is saying that people look at the DPS meters to figure out what they think is the quickest, most uber-efficient method to win - that people analyze the data provided by a tool and then tell other players, "Oh, you have to do exactly that..." rather than paying attention to the physical fight.
And Steven wants people to be paying attention and making decisions based on observing the pysical fight rather than by analyzing data with a tool.

Aerlana

Noaani wrote: »

The thing is, since we are asking for a combat tracker built in to the game, Steven could just build one that doesn't have even have the functionality that ACT has - as limited as it is in this regard.

perfectly

A tool that collect datas, shows DPS, HPS, DPM and other usefull statistics
maybe way to see how damages are spread between the different skills (but even this, i would be ok to not have it) No need about graphics.

And i clearly want nothing more...
And didnt say to stay in the "here are my proofs" but, boss mods are a really bad thing. My opinion for sure.

Dygz

Ashes will have a personal combat tracker.

Aerlana

Dygz wrote: »

Ashes will have a personal combat tracker.

source? i am honest i searched it, and didnt find in wiki.

Only found this

Combat logs

There are combat logs in Ashes of Creation.[233]

We will be providing combat data for individual players in their chat window, that players can filter and analyze for themselves. The goal is to mitigate and make the practice less prevalent through the ease that DPS meters provide. Also to place actionable enforcement for players who attempt to circumvent the decision by use of 3rd party programs, for which we will be monitoring.[234] – Steven Sharif

Which is in... every mmorpg, and is not a personnal combat tracker.

it is the traditionnal combat log, shown in the chat window in its own tab, this is just a succession of

you hit cat for 23 damages with fire ball
Cat hits you for 1 damage with malicious claw
you get bleed effect
you hit cat for 22 damages with fire ball
cats hit you for 0 damage with tail of disrepect
You take 43238 damages from bleed
you die

Noaani

Dygz wrote: »

And Steven wants people to be paying attention and making decisions based on observing the pysical fight rather than by analyzing data with a tool.

See, again, this is both your and Stevens complete inexperience in using combat trackers being shown off to the world again.

You will never be able to defeat a raid encounter by looking at a combat tracker alone.

You need to look and observe the encounter first, and know what it is doing, and then you use a combat tracker to back that up.

Both you and Steven should go out and play a game that uses combat trackers (and not combat assistants), then come back to this thread and apologize for just how inaccurate you have been with what combat trackers actually do - as it is very clear neither of you have any idea.

Aerlana

Dygz wrote: »

And Steven wants people to be paying attention and making decisions based on observing the pysical fight rather than by analyzing data with a tool.

ok... again, it is false.

the most passionate boss fight i had, like Nael Deus darnus, Bahamut, alexander in FFXIV
like Arthas 25 HM, Yogg 0... oh yes lets see yogg 0

(here comes an fast explanation about why watching data from parser doesnt help to kill yogg 0, quite long so in spoiler)

This fight you have to permanently see where are 2/3 of the team, what debuff each of them get, while running from tentacle to tentacle to down them asap, if your team was good enough, you had some free time about your DPS (killing tentacles faster they spawn) but you had to remain focus about many things. A team of 9 (10?) had to go in a place where they have to turn the character to not be in front of some skulls, killing ennemies that anyone 2 shot, before shooting the boos itself, and all this while watching a timer. And final phase, spend a crazy amount of DPS, before the tank dies. BUT had to turn your character when boss did laugh.

the DPS check is quite low on the first part, and heavy on last part. most fight time DPS is not really a matter, but about all i said, you did too much mistakes, you could consider it was a wipe for the raid. Not from a "one shot mechanic"
The fight begins giving all player a "sanity" bar, many things during the fight lower this sanity from 100 to 0. you can avoid to lose sanity by watching were are other, watching debuffs they have (better to have this on vocal). or avoiding watching skulls in the alternate place. And not watching boss when he laughs in the end. If you comes to 0, your character get a boost of statistic, but becomes mind controlled by the boss.

And some kind of boss, there is on each raid in wow.
Lets speak about Vaelastrasz "the guild killer" ... you had to spend as much DPS as you can (and games helped you with infinite mana). but again, one mistake from 1 player in this 40-man boss fight => wipe.
Many guild disbands because people were not focused enough when they had bomb and had to run far from raid, or focused on their own threat take aggro over the tank, boss turns, do a swipe, and all melees die. This was the first "hard" boss fight of wow. the same raid he appeared revealed 2 boss far more difficult in all point than him. and while expansion continued, really hard boss fight asking to react fast and being focus on the whole fight are a lot. Twin emperor, heigan, kael thas, twin eredar, Yogg 0, Arthas 25HM, Sinestra, Al'akir, Lei shen, garosh. . . and could continue

All the boss i did list, and also could do a list on FFXIV, even reading during hours your parsers was not enough to know what to do on the fight...
It was (and it remains) far more efficient to return back to the fight, again and again.
It is far more efficient on wow, where it is easy to have a parser, to learn the fight by playing it than analysing datas

Another proof that even with parser, we have to focus on fight, train it again and again. wipe again and again : Limit is top 1 wow guild in NA, for the last raid of BFA expansion,
99 wipe before killing Il'gynoth
73 wipe before killing Raden
68 wipe before killing Carapace of N'zoth
273 wipe before killing N'zoth

They all spend hours and hours in wow, they all play together a lot and so have really good coordination.
They all had parser, and this what they have at each raid... 50 to 100 wipe to the "hard boss" of the raid, 200 to 300 (sometime more) for the last boss. So it is not a "they were too accustomed to just read data" the last boss of legion asked around 320 wipe before the world first killed him.
Again it is really good player, that masters their class perfectly, and they just want to kill the raid before the other guilds. they need to learn it, wipe after wipe, "through error and trial"

It is the same thing with FFXIV ultimate fights

Here is the proof that even DPS meter, people have to pay attention and make decisions based on observing the pysical fight rather than by analyzing data with a tool. Because the data they see says nothing... nothing at all.

here are all my proofs to say "what steven says on this subject is false"

Galux

Aerlana wrote: »

When i whisp such people to give advice, explain more the fight, sometime i find people eager to learn. Sometime people who don't care, not reading what i say, doing the same shit during the fight, with the same low DPS (or healing, etc). So yes, this second kind of people is totally toxic and deserve only one thing : the kick from the raid. When all try their best to kill the fight, the least you have to do if you underperform is... listening to people who wants to help you. it is just what we call "respect"

What kind of content i speak about ? for me, "hard content" is at least the difficulty of FFXIV savage bosses. the very least. And would be happy to see some encounter as tough as ultimate fights. In WoW it would be like mythic raids fight.
and in such content, you have to be as close as you can of the 100% efficiency of your build and stuff.

Yeah ok, i figured you were talking about such difficult content, just wanted to make sure. When it comes to such difficulty i do agree that it's toxic if somebody is using every bit of ounze in their body to do the opposite of what people is telling them and refusing to improve. I'm gonna refer to this content as extreme. I would not think it's toxic at all to replace such a person for this difficulty.

Now if we take a few steps back to only hard content and someone would start whispering me about how i should choose ability X over Z because <reasons>, or perhaps they spoil the boss fight mechanic before i ever experienced it my self. Then it's the other way around, i would consider it toxic and not respectful to just say it in the group chat or whisper it without a example "Would you like any tips?"

I understand such tips comes from a good place but for content where it does not matter (easy/medium/hard/very hard) it's rather annoying.

rikardp98

Galux wrote: »

Aerlana wrote: »

When i whisp such people to give advice, explain more the fight, sometime i find people eager to learn. Sometime people who don't care, not reading what i say, doing the same shit during the fight, with the same low DPS (or healing, etc). So yes, this second kind of people is totally toxic and deserve only one thing : the kick from the raid. When all try their best to kill the fight, the least you have to do if you underperform is... listening to people who wants to help you. it is just what we call "respect"

What kind of content i speak about ? for me, "hard content" is at least the difficulty of FFXIV savage bosses. the very least. And would be happy to see some encounter as tough as ultimate fights. In WoW it would be like mythic raids fight.
and in such content, you have to be as close as you can of the 100% efficiency of your build and stuff.

Yeah ok, i figured you were talking about such difficult content, just wanted to make sure. When it comes to such difficulty i do agree that it's toxic if somebody is using every bit of ounze in their body to do the opposite of what people is telling them and refusing to improve. I'm gonna refer to this content as extreme. I would not think it's toxic at all to replace such a person for this difficulty.

Now if we take a few steps back to only hard content and someone would start whispering me about how i should choose ability X over Z because <reasons>, or perhaps they spoil the boss fight mechanic before i ever experienced it my self. Then it's the other way around, i would consider it toxic and not respectful to just say it in the group chat or whisper it without a example "Would you like any tips?"

I understand such tips comes from a good place but for content where it does not matter (easy/medium/hard/very hard) it's rather annoying.

So you would rather wipe the raid over and over so you don't get "spoil the boss fight mechanic"? Isn't that kind of ignorant and selfish?

Aerlana

Galux wrote: »

Now if we take a few steps back to only hard content and someone would start whispering me about how i should choose ability X over Z because <reasons>, or perhaps they spoil the boss fight mechanic before i ever experienced it my self. Then it's the other way around, i would consider it toxic and not respectful to just say it in the group chat or whisper it without a example "Would you like any tips?"

I never asked. because i never did before second wipe on LFR/raid24 content (because... useless if we do only 1 wipe)

On more serious content (normal/heroic raid, xtrem/sadic) i generally begin to give DPS advice when i see we struggle, and find that some are really under what is expected for such content. Again i don't ask because their global performance is under what we can expect from anyone for this fight.

Some people trained, learned to play. I can understand people to "take their time" but you can force people to quietly go your rythm when you group with them. If they want to help, in hope it will get faster it is not toxicity, it is their right. what is toxic is considering that he has to spend time for you.

You want to learn slowly ?
Build your team
Do this with your guild/FC. when i helped my FC doing Xtrem primals it was the slow time, but was not random unknown people. In PickUp the rule is the one from the raidleader. if you dislike, you leave.

for "story content" i really rarely saw people spoiling it. it is so brainless that most of time it can be killed as 5 player and 3 who understands nothing and try to do anything.

(btw we are out of topic

not totally but a little, i was just surprised that considering anyone giving advice, helping other to improve themselves could be seen as "toxic" . . .
To be honest i really thing to do a topic after alpha 1 test, to speak about toxicity : what kind of toxicity, how to treat with toxic people, etc. i know from one to another, "toxicity" can totally change. would be an interesting topic i think)

Noaani

Galux wrote: »

I understand such tips comes from a good place but for content where it does not matter (easy/medium/hard/very hard) it's rather annoying.

What does this have to do with combat trackers?

If you have a friend that has seen content you have not seen, then they will likely have tips for you on it - combat trackers do not factor in to that at all.

Galux

Noaani wrote: »

What does this have to do with combat trackers?

If you have a friend that has seen content you have not seen, then they will likely have tips for you on it - combat trackers do not factor in to that at all.

Side-tracking in a DPS thread. It happens

Noaani

Galux wrote: »

Noaani wrote: »

What does this have to do with combat trackers?

If you have a friend that has seen content you have not seen, then they will likely have tips for you on it - combat trackers do not factor in to that at all.

Side-tracking in a DPS thread. It happens

Well then, stick to playing the game with people that play the same way and for the same reasons you do.

If you enjoy going in to content completely blind, then only play with people that also enjoy that. If you don't care about being as good as you can be, then don't group with people that want to be as good as they can be.

This way, no one is going to spoil anything for you.

Almost all player interaction issues can be resolved if people either only play with people that play the same way they do, or accept that things will not be 100% perfect for them should they step out of that group of people.

Now back to combat tracker discussion.

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