Tank dps harrasment

[ElHeggunte]

If people feel its acceptable to kick a tank because his/her DPS is low [...]

I think this new meta around tank DPS is getting out of hand, but it's not without it's merits and isn't totally unreasonable. As a tank you can only hold so much threat and mitigate so much damage before any additional action becomes redundant. As a healer, you can only recover so much HP before you start overhealing (or literally just wind up sitting around for 10-20 seconds until someone takes enough damage to be worth healing).

Once you hit a certain threat threshold or you're in a position where no one is in immediate need of healing, why wouldn't you fill those globals with extra damage instead of sitting on your hands or performing wasted actions? More damage also has the direct benefit of adding to the eHP of the entire group: the faster the mob dies, the less damage it deals, and the less HP the healers have to recover.

Your "examples" also fall flat when you consider that tanks and healers have decent damage capabilities baked right into their toolkits (largely so they can actually solo content without taking years to kill something) where as DPS barely have anything in the way of damage mitigation or HP recovery. You're comparing apples to airships.

look uo every QA live letter, everyone one has a "please add parser" question, each time he stats no, and adds that parsers are a "don't ask, don't tell" if you use it to harass people, it against tos. we going on 5 years he has been saying this.

FFLogs =/= In-game Parser. I know SE's stance on parsers. I've never seen them say anything about third-party sites like FFLogs even though the data was obtained via parsing. Largely because there's no proof that the person talking about the logs is in any way parsing themselves.

Using the information to harass someone is one thing (because harassment is against the ToS regardless), but I've never heard of general use of FFLogs being against the ToS. And no, "guilt by association" doesn't apply here unless SE explicitly said using FFLogs is against the rules in addition to openly parsing.