Quote Originally Posted by ElciaDeiLinus View Post
General problem with parsing in games is its always used as an excuse for extreme toxicity. There's some who use it for self betterment, but most just use it to flex and dunk on others.
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Extremely eloquent way of wording exactly what I was thinking when it comes to parsers.

I've been around the MMO scene a very, very long time, right back to UO, EQ and AO and there's always been this argument for parsers since Vanilla WoW when modding became the norm.

Yet for every person that want's to use a parser the right way, for self improvement, identifying and tidying up their own rotation, there are at least ten people that want to use the Parser for bragging rights or belittling others.

I can't tell you how many times, I've tuned into a "Known Streamer" raiding, to see them getting angry, pulling up someone in the teams parse and ragging on them in a very public and demeaning manner. It's also let to this obsession that DPS > Everything which is leading to healers forgoing their primary role to spam damage because they don't want to be yelled at.

If someone is trying to chew me out over parsing numbers because I've been doing my primary role, they are part of the problem and the reason SE will not support it, sorry but I'd much sooner drop an Aspected Benefic shield on a Black Mage so they can finish out their rotation because the shield/heal gives them enough health to eat the AoE, than keep spamming my damage because mines' nothing compared to theirs, but them completing a full rotation because the healer is fulfilling their role is far more beneficial to the team as a whole.

Parsers can be tools for good, unfortunately they've long been established and used as a tool for ill.