Parsers make you stupid

[AdamFyi]

Seriously, can't people just clear raids without parsers? Why do you need that clutch?

Simple; you can. Parsers do not provide any sort of significant advantage against those who don't use them. A lot of players use it to gauge the party's performance in an encounter, or to see how well they can hold themselves up during the encounter.

Problem is that some encounters do not allow you to turtle through the fight, as evident with the many enrage timers in a lot of the encounters. Having your party wipe to an encounter due to lack of damage output is easy to see, but as to who or what is causing it - you would need to take a few to go through the battle logs and calculate everything by hand. Parsers just compile the data to make it easier to see.

Unless, of course, you would rather sift through the battle logs; then by all means do so. As a PS4 player myself, I would love to have an official parser to gauge my own performance. I really don't care about other people's output, with the exception of high-end encounters like savage and extreme primals. I want to know how well I'm doing without needing to bother other people to gauge my performance. :u