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    Saito Hikari
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor View Post
    Unfortunately, a lot of people believe they deserve a clear or aren't willing to put forth the effort to improve. When you parse, you'll notice very quickly just how lazy people can get even in Savage content. Ironically, it's usually those players who are the first to complain about numbers, not the ways using ACT the way it ought to be used; self improvement. I've had a handful of DPS whine about group DPS or poke the healers only too look and see they died five times or pulled half as much as someone else playing their job.
    This is actually the main reason why I adopted the use of a parser too. It's to smack down the toxic fools who have no right to be taking a dump on the entire group when it's clear that they're the ones holding everyone back in the first place.

    I can count with one hand the situations where I've run into actual parsing elitists trashing a run during the past two years I've played this game (and usually, I'm actually beating such people anyway. As a BARD. But of course they're going to try to keep me out of it in the hopes that I don't knock down their hastily-built house of cards and call them out for that myself). But I can count with 10 the amount of really, really bad DPS pretending to be 'pro' only for my data to show that they have no right to be shaming anyone else in the group.

    Beyond that, I only pay attention to improving my own numbers. Actually monitoring how everyone else is doing is secondary to me outside of an Alliance or Savage raid where the DPS actually does matter, but 95% of wipes is due to failing mechanics in the first place, so it's freaking pointless to nitpick over the entire group's numbers there when failing mechanics naturally lowers everyone's numbers regardless. One might say that I'm contradicting myself with this argument, but parsing is still a valuable tool for the sake of having data to monitor your own progress. Before I began parsing a year ago, I used to think I was one of the best Bards in the world. I got humbled REAL quick after I learned how to use a parser, and have since been working on optimizing my damage and support at the same time to the point where I can actually back that up now.
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    Last edited by SaitoHikari; 08-14-2017 at 04:12 PM.