Quote Originally Posted by Sylvina View Post
A parser can be a great tool for PERSONAL improvement. having a IN GAME parser however is a horrible idea.
Except a parser can only accurately display information in a raid setting. Jobs like Monk, Bard, Machinist, Paladin and Dark Knight all rely on other jobs for a good portion of their damage. Furthermore, how are players going to improve if they can't compare themselves to someone better? 4,500 DPS to an inexperienced Dragoon may look fantastic yet those were my numbers at the beginning of Deltascape. Putting all that aside, a personal improvement will have the same results as a public one; people will demand you show your numbers and hold you accounting in harder end content should you lie. To which I say, why is this such a bad things? Personal or public, why should the expectation be veteran players carry bad or inexperienced players in farm or weeklies parties? If the group's okay with helping out, that's one thing. It shouldn't be the expectation though.

And as Moro said, no one has ever shown where parsers are specifically to blame for supposed toxicity. I can point to arguably more examples of casual players mocking others under the assumption they're doing good damage. In fact, I've been on the receiving end of such a laughable example. When you're being mocked by a SAM pulling sub 4k while you've been dead on the floor and still beating them. I sincerely doubt he had a parse going or he wouldn't have said two words.