If running a parser makes you cynical and depressed, why do it?

[Goji1639]

Even if you were ignorant to what the rules were, you figured it out real quick on the very first post. What matters is what came after. You had your own experiences, and as others shared theirs, and believed yours, and said "hey, that sucks, but it's generally not that way", you had then disregarded the experiences of others because of your own, because you thought the misusage of the parser deemed it bad enough to damn everyone else. It was validation; nothing else.

And no, the people who didn't believe you don't matter, it's the people that do.

Buuut sure, keep saying that. Yeah, I would defend parser's to the death. Do you know why?

It's the closest thing we got to real streamlined optimization as well as mathing out what need's balancing and what doesn't.

For player's like me, that want to strive to be better, but cannot due to the fact that there's no in game ways for me to know, other than people telling me, but even then. It's an absolute necessity. No, not in dungeons. Yes in Raids, Yes in Ultimate, Yes in Extremes to an extent.

That's how we know, before these new buffs came out, that Dancer is not worth taking in a party, because their rDPS values are low to the point that taking them for their buffs is detrimental. Hense... they need buffs.

I think you can even agree that parser's are useful in many ways, if not necessary. And if you don't, I feel like your judgement is just obviously clouded by the minor misusage of some.



On topic, though, since I actually did want to respond to this eventually.

People not performing optimally doesn't make me cynical or depressed, nor do people playing poorly. Class balance doesn't either.

People not being able to take advice do, either by outright ignoring it, or by harassing the person who has given the advice. I understand why they get offended, or don't respond, but people also gotta understand that some people just wanna help.

Saying stuff like "You should use AOE skills for big pulls, you'll deal a lot more damage" or "If you pull these mobs from the left wall and hide behind here, you can LOS the ranged ones and pack them together" should not be met with hostility.

It sounds like your position is exactly what I thought it was. You're just terrified that parsers might end up "more" banned than they are, so you needed my accounts to be invalidated. Thus you, and a few others with similar fears, gave your accounts and got angry when I didn't immediately accept them as fact and recant my own.

The thread beyond my learning and accepting that they're already banned; was just me talking, and in some cases arguing, with people who were seemingly made very insecure by my thread and opinions. Some were calmly stating their own experiences, and I allowed them to do so without me trying to discredit them. Others, like you, were aggressive and hostile, so I argued. Simple as that.