Quote Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor View Post
By the way, here is a prime example of toxicity, and it isn't coming from the parse users. Remember how I accused your stance of coddling? This is precisely why. Some idiot says mean words to someone, and we need to wrap them in blankets and ban the parsers because they may, possibly, potentially, unknowingly get their knickers twisted. We can't have anyone's feelings hurt! You have just described a safe space.

And? Some moron acted like a jerk, only making themselves look foolish. Who cares? You laugh and move on with your life.
You are actually acting as if considering the abuse of a tool is a bad thing, simply because the tool can be useful. It appears you do not care of the negative affects a parser can have because you are able to laugh it off if it's directed at you. Not everyone is you. Not everyone is confident in their ability, and not everyone understands the game enough to know if they're being wrongly accused of poor performance.

Some people come to the game to escape and/or relax. Not to be worried about some jerks who are synced down giving them crap for playing a class they're learning or trying to gear up. You may think wanting to prevent this is wrapping people in a blanket, but it's granting a measure of fairness to people to not be judged by a mere glance at some numbers when the reasons for their damage output could very well be completely unrelated to the buttons they're pressing, or justified considering their lack of experience.

Additionally parsers may make lvl sync problematic if sprouts see that their dps cannot compare to lvl 60+ synced players. They may think they are actually doing something wrong when they're not simply because the parser makes it appear so. In a sense the game would be doing parser abuse on its own by potentially making unsynced players look bad.

But apparently looking at the bigger picture equates to swaddling the game in bubble-wrap.