Harassing Healers - or: Please allow Parsers

[Knahli]

Allowing parsing merely trades one problem for another without solving the core issue.

I'm of the completely irrelevant opinion that everyone in a group should be expected to make their best effort at contributing to the group's success.
Parsing breaks the group's total effort into individual contributions - and that's just a recipe for one person to call out another for 'not doing enough' based on arbitrary comparisons.

"Best effort" means different things to different people; and the Twelve knows that the spectrum of players in endgame is incredibly wide, ranging from people fresh to the highest level, still feeling their way around their skills, to jaded veterans that have done it all a thousand times to people just logging in to have some fun to hardcore speedrunners.

When you play on DF you can get any of these, and often get a mix of them.
Of course we ought to poke people obviously slacking to put in a bit more - but pushing them far outside their comfort zone isn't a solution either ... perhaps we all ought to take a step back, take a deep breath and instead of focusing so hard on performance in (effectively) social content, accept the run will take a few extra minutes and try to guide and help people instead.

Of course, if they don't want to be helped, then you can start thinking about other, more dramatic solutions -- but that's on a case by case basis, not a blanket solution.

Hit the nail on the head, the emboldened part especially.

You don't need a parser to tell that someone isn't good. Regardless of whether you're a tank, healer or DPS, it is easy to tell if you're bad at your job. Healers who only heal aren't really bad, but to bring parsers into the mix? I mean... you don't need to have a degree in rocket science to know that a Bard is bad when they don't sing Foe for a DPSing healer and a BLM/SMN.

That's an extremely inaccurate and sweeping statement when considering the points referenced by Storm, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you were being very liberal with your choice of words to get your basic point across.