Quote Originally Posted by ReiMakoto View Post
As much as I think a personal DPS meter would be good, the Devs had said people might still use a personal dps meter to harass people by demanding screenshots. Its kinda dumb because surely thats what report feature is for, but in general they seem to be against things that could cause lazy players to get called out.
And this reply is why they are against it. Your assumption is that someone who is struggling is lazy, but there could be a myriad reasons why they are having issues that have nothing to do with laziness. They are a new player, they are new to the role, they are new to the fight, they take a long time to learn fight mechanics for whatever reason, they are disabled, their mouse/controller glitched, they got cramp etc and so on. I am not denying the existence of lazy players but the fact that it is your first assumption is very much the reason that parsers aren't allowed

I am not denying the usefulness of parsers to improve one's own gameplay either, I am pointing out that we are the reason why parsers are banned. Maybe if we stop behaving like knobs and treat other people respectfully (including not assuming I'm a guy, which is really starting to annoy me lol) then we might get our private parsers one day.