SE's most difinitive statement yet on parsers

[Sebazy]

Sorry but when I was in WoW most world first "boss" clears are not based on using meters but communication between progression guilds during downtime unless they actually communicated between fights. "Pro-tip that is happening in the current end game scene of FFXIV."

Any DPSer in WoW going for a world first will have spent time on dummies and other encounters analysing and optimising themselves with a parser. I would mention world of raids but given your disdain for parsers, I can only tremble at your likely opinion of that would be

Yet you don't have to take my word for it and can believe on the parser data. All it ever did in WoW just simply gather pointless dps information that can be gotten even without it's presence. People that record fights would even spot the, exact why, faster than those bothering with crunching a log.

Recording and replaying footage from attempts is just a different way of achieving the same thing and frankly, the two compliment each other brilliantly. The first thing my FC did when learning new turns was to take the best recording from the group (We would have 2 or 3 people recording/streaming at the very least) and promptly break down that footage into a digestible timeline to give ourselves a better idea of what we were up against.

Ps "Casual-tip a good debate doesn't have to be so hostile."