@kat what do "uploading parses" and "orange parses" mean
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@Felthry oh boy okay i wasn’t expecting not-ffxiv-likers to care about this post hang on give me a while to type an explanation
@Felthry a lot of xiv players use a piece of software to parse combat logs during fights and give readouts of who’s doing what and who’s doing how much damage and how many deaths people had so they can improve their gameplay or analyze fights and see what needs to be improved to complete harder content with their group
you can upload a parse to a site called fflogs that will automatically turn it into a big interactive chart that helps you look through and analyze the information (cont)
@Felthry when you upload a fight log it also gives you your overall damage readout and a percentile of your damage compared to other players of the same class, on the same fight, so you can understand your general performance overall
those are color-coded so 1-25 or so is gray, 25-50 is green, etc
if you have a very good higher-percentile parse you get blue and orange and stuff
some people look at others’ uploaded data to gauge their performance, someone with a lot of gray parses might (cont)
@Felthry it’s about 20% “useful info if you’re running a raid team and want to help everyone clear a fight” and 80% “only the most annoying people care about dickwaving over parses and you can ignore them”