DPS who do 4k worth of damage = garbage tier

[SaitoHikari]

Well, if there's one thing to be said, it's that SE's stance on parsing seems to have really lightened up as of late. Either because they realize that actively punishing people who parse (without harassing anyone else with it) would lead to the raid community getting gutted, and/or it's so common now that actively discouraging it like they used to in the past would be a really bad look when actual problems like hackers and botters are still so rampant within the game.

I remember that when I first started playing at the start of Heavensward, people warned me in particular to not talk about parsing period on these forums because of a story of how one of the most prominent DRG guide writers got banned from here, because he merely included a screenshot/video in his guide where a parsing overlay was on display. That story tells me why that Reddit Balance discord exists, and it tells me why there's such a huge rift between the English community, split between 2 websites (these forums and Reddit). These forums *do not* lend themselves well to guide writing for various reasons I'm sure don't have to be explained, and on top of that, it seems the official forums have an incredibly low population of actual raiders that actively post on it.

At least now we can somewhat have a discussion on parsing without forum bans being handed out over it. Though a lot of people are being disingenuous over it.

I do wonder what the JP community stance on parsing is, actually. Their debates don't seem to get anywhere near as heated as ours. The last time I looked over and found a heated thread that might be considered shameful by any means was when male bunny suits were revealed.