Quote Originally Posted by Craiger View Post
You don't have to have a big ego to care about being high on DPS parses.
There's a difference between "being high on" and "demanding to be on the top regardless of utility brought". The difference is made painfully clear by the fact that they use the phrase "win a parse". You know what that phrase means, "win a parse"? It means "I care more about beating everyone else in my group than I do about actually winning the fight." Nobody who ever has thought that they could "win a parse" has not had a big ego, because the fights are not a contest against the rest of your group. It's a contest WITH the rest of your group AGAINST what you're fighting. By wanting to "win a parse", you're making up some competition simply to feed your ego. If you really want to show how great you are against other players, that's what PVP is for. PVE is not PVPVE.

It's one thing to want to do the best you can in the confines of the game's balance, it's another thing to demand that the balance be redone simply because you want the top numbers but didn't think to play the class with the top numbers.

If someone is more concerned with their numbers not being the biggest over the fact that they just killed something with the NECESSARY help of 3/7/23 other people, then yes, it's an ego problem. That mentality is the exact reason why I left WoW, and is the exact reason why I am happy they don't officially allow parsers.