SE's most difinitive statement yet on parsers

[Mcshiggs]

While true, there are occasions where you need to stop and take a look at a singular fight to figure out why you're not making DPS checks.
Two players of the same job may be doing the same rotation, but one may be producing significantly higher numbers than another, taking an in depth look at a parse could yield some insight into this.

So you don't just want a simple parser that tells dps, you want something like world of logs where you can see stuff like buff and debuff up time and all that. I'm one of those that right now, they say parsers are against the rules, so I think using them is wrong, right now. I see the use from them, and if they ok them in the future so be it, but they are just a tool, they are by no means required. While it was nifty to look at, world of logs was just ridiculous in the amount of information it gave and it was ridiculous when raid groups started making you link your Logs page to them so they could evaluate you before they decided if you were worthy of grouping with them. And that is the kind of stuff SE is trying to avoid. They would rather a group give you a shot, and kick you if you don't measure up, rather than dismissing you based on numbers before hand.

Also dps isn't always as clear as folks think, if I roll into a raid as a monk, and see there is a better geared monk there, I will make sure he knows that I will handle the dragon kick buff, so he can maximize his dps. To some people if they see the dps numbers afterward, I suck because his numbers are so much better than mine, but if you think about it, some of his dps is because of me, every other rotation, he gets a free crit bootshine because of me. If you have people that know about this kind of stuff, they can handle the parsers ok, but I doubt the majority of the people would do that if they had access to parsers, they would see his numbers, my numbers, then tell me to get better and kick me. Now the opposite, if I was the better geared monk, and asked the other one to keep dragon kick up, it's going to be a 50/50 shot, either he will because he cares more about the party and wants to get the clear, or he won't because he cares more about his numbers, and the party comes second.