Quote Originally Posted by Lunaxia View Post
All I've ever said is that you don't really need a parser to see that a DPS is performing badly, and that terrible DPS is reflected in the enmity list.
Reading the discussion from the side...that's exactly the point that people did (at least originally) counter.

You said that enmity can be used to see a DPS performing badly.
Others said it absolutely cannot be used to see a DPS performing badly, because the enmity of those that perform well is the same or lower if they use their enmity management skills better.

That's all. No one was saying anything about parser for a good while. They merely gave time and time again examples of how enmity doesn't mean a thing for anything other than tanking. Enmity shows only one bad thing in a DPS. Poor use of enmity management skills. That's all. It goes even further down the drain if there is any kind of spawn in the fight (or if it's a mid-dungeon pull) where the damage is variously spread between targets. At that point you could look at all the skill uses and buffs you want. There is 0 chance you could even roughly glance over it, unless you do nothing but switch targets to see all that enmity and try to deduce who did the hits and with what. In a boss with spawn, some may go for a spawn (one of few different, possibly), some may stick on the boss. Unless someone is going after a spawn solo, at which point you can visually compare the time it takes for him to kill it (if you saw and remember other DPS players doing the same feat), that completely messes up any estimation of how good or bad a player is based on enmity.

So yes. Your point was understood and it was countered repeatedly.


As for the original post...If you believe that you have poorly written the original post KaivaC...then simply edit it and elaborate on your stance so that everyone can see from the get-go what it is. Trying to explain yourself in latter posts without editing the original post cannot really do much.