SE's most difinitive statement yet on parsers

[Appleh4x]

It's an example and you let it go way over your head just so you can prove your "I need my parsers" fiasco. I know how much my thunder does without the need of parsers. It's a shame you are that dependent of a parser to figure it out. If you hate math then say so in which just go fight a level 49 mob and toss a tick on it and kite it around see how much it does. You can also throw up more two dots and see how it goes and so on.

That laziness and dependency is what causes end game environments to go down the drain.

You are without a doubt the least informed person I have ever talked to on any forum, ever. I actually use the parser because I love the math. The example you gave of tracking damage by throwing a dot on a level 49 is so unbelievably stupid on so many levels.

Through the course of a fight there are dozens of factors that affect the damage your dots do. Self buffs, enemy debuffs, stat potions, foe requiem, clipping your dots for whatever reason, whether the DoT initial hit even lands 100% of the time or not, how it affects your tp/mp management, etc. Just throwing a DoT on a mob and looking for the float damage that isn't shown in the log to pop up and then writing all that down and adding it up is a horrible way to try and find out how much DoT damage you're doing through the course of a fight.