Oh I definitely agree, "you can't judge a book by it's cover".

I've seen some really poor performances from people who were full i180+ gear, but again, I didn't need to see numbers to show me that they were bad... I saw them wipe to simple mechanics repeatedly.

I'm more fed up with people going ape-sht over simple content like Roulettes, or members (some from my OWN FC / LSes even) making fun of other players for not hitting their parsing expectations on content where it doesn't matter.

Cause it doesn't matter. It's just a big self concious, self praising circle jerk 90% of the time I see people talking parses.

And to me, that takes all the fun out of the game feeling like I'm constantly being monitored (as DPS anyways) by other players without my consent. I can dodge every AoE and never get hit on DRG, but still be last on the parsing list and all of a sudden I'm a bad player. That's not ok with me