Quote Originally Posted by Ryel View Post
So common that not only have you not experienced it yourself so your evidence isn't even anecdotal, but you're instead relying on third party testimonials?
Whelp I'm convinced. No offense but if you're trying to provide a point saying how the addition of parsers would breed toxicity, saying the equivalent of "Some guy in my FC said someone in Ex roulette was being mean" isn't going to make your point.
He already said he talked to many people who experienced it. I don't see how "only he himself but no one else" is a better argument than "many people he has talked to".
So yeah, if it makes you happy: I experienced it myself. AND talked to many many people who experienced it, too. More convincing? Probably not, since you don't want to get convinced in the first place.

But since you wanted to hear an anecdotal story, here is one: I was called out on my dmg very rudely after we wiped in a fight in which I got targeted all the time by AoEs. I'm a BLM, meaning movement equals close to no dmg dealt. it was simply bad luck, the AoEs could have targeted someone else, but they didn't. I tried to explain that and got either ignored (we only care about hard facts and the facts say your dmg was the worst out of all the dps!) or told to just ignore the AoEs and get hit, they'd heal it away.
I did what I was told and actively BECAME A WORSE PLAYER by staying in AoEs I could have moved out of but hey, of course my parser numbers skyrocketed :eyesroll:
Only did the healers NOT heal me, so I ended up dying and not dealing any decent dmg anyway.
In other situations in the same group when I wasn't targeted by the AoEs and my dmg was fine just like that, the tank forgot to grab the adds and I got targeted trying to save the healer and died too.
In the end, I was the one getting berated, insulted and kicked, because the parser only showed the numbers - me dealing less dmg than other dps - not that others ignored the fight's mechanics.