Quote Originally Posted by Camiie View Post
The feeling I'm getting from those who are pro-parser is that people want their accomplishments in game (accomplishments I do laud by the way) to give them something beyond gear, vanity items, titles, and achievements. What I feel like people really want for their trouble is authority over other players. They want a hierarchy, obviously with themselves at the head of it, and an easy means for those who aren't in their caste to be easily cast aside. Not to say that people can't ever move up, but it just won't be on their watch or on their valuable time. They can do that on someone else's time, assuming everyone else doesn't take the same tack of course. Self-improvement seems to be more of an excuse or a secondary benefit than the real reason behind it all, especially considering the public disclosure of data.
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Could not be further from the truth. And this is the perfect example of the type of insecurity and thin skin that will prevent many players from having a tool they want to improve their game play. If you've been around people who are working very hard to try to clear content, you'll see they use fflogs to figure out when to use raid dps buffs, healing cool downs, tank cds, and to learn how to improve their own performance to help get over that 1%-2% wipe. They look at logs of really good players and compare to their own logs to see what they are doing differently and what they are not doing. They look for mistakes so they won't repeat them- did they not get collective buff when they were supposed to? Were they out of range?

Just as it's wrong to use parsers to harass other people, it's also wrong to use your own uninformed stereotype to misrepresent the "pro-parsers" group.