Just realized something: FFXIV is a terrible DPS player's DREAM come true...

[Enyalios]

Sorry but I disagree with you. Parsing has always been a cancer in MMOs and it gives players the excuse to be toxic jerks and wave their e-peens around as if it mattered. Knowing your mechanics imo is far better than trying to do high dps. If you are dead, then you aren't doing any dps.

Name on fight in any endgame where you can stand still as a DPS, do mechanics perfectly but zero DPS and still clear the fight. While ever there are DPS checks and enrage timers there's a need for parsers. Enrage means X-DPS done in Y-time. I don't care if you dance around the room with perfect twinkle toes, bad DPS is bad DPS

[AphraelAmarantha]

Name on fight in any endgame where you can stand still as a DPS, do mechanics perfectly but zero DPS and still clear the fight. While ever there are DPS checks and enrage timers there's a need for parsers. Enrage means X-DPS done in Y-time. I don't care if you dance around the room with perfect twinkle toes, bad DPS is bad DPS

I don't think you read what I said. If there was a need for parsers SE would have put them in. Since they didn't and its against the ToS for using them, the game does not need parsers. As you just mentioned, enrage mechanic is a good way to know that "oh look, the raid party isn't doing enough dps, maybe we should try to do better so we can do more damage and not let the boss get enraged." You don't need a parser for that when the game tells you with a mechanic that you are not doing enough damage.