Quote Originally Posted by ZeroHigh View Post
I mean this is what you hope parsers are you used for, a tool to help each other grow, but the reality is that it's more often used to gate/alienate other players. I'm all for personal parsers that only shows your dmg though.
Hope? It's what I always see it used for in my static and circles of players.

Also really you make it sound like its the fault of the parser. The knife analogy used before is useful; why be against a useful tool because idiots misuse it, shouldn't you be against idiots?

And finally this point keeps on getting brought up but I must emphasise, I have no sympathy. Tanks deal with this all the time because bad tank play is obvious and cannot be dissolved into the group, bad healer play is also obvious as healer tasks are often divided. Dps however can hide in a group, and dissolve responsibility of poor play among the others when there is a single bad player. A parser brings them up to the level of responsibility and peer critique that the other roles deal with constantly, and being against this transparency really adds weight to the stereotype that dps players like to have no responsibility. You are not playing a single player game, there is teamwork and your contribution to the team is the teams business, you should have nothing to hide.

If people don't know how to take in the information a parser provides then that's their problem, and if they kicked you then they did you a favor since it's a bad group. As long as you take your role in a party seriously, are open to critique and ways to improve and always try to preform to the standard that content demands then you have nothing to fear.