People advertising they're running Parsers

[Dewslam]

If there's one thing WoW did right, it was allowing addons

As someone who played WoW from vanilla to the end of Wrath my stance is as it was back then: lmao no.

Here's a fun anecdote from back in burning crusade that exemplify exactly why I've come to despise parsers;
Back in Burning Crusade I mained a hunter, and during an era where everyone was pushing really hard to change to the Beast Mastery spec, I was stubbornly refusing and sticking to Marksman because I liked it more, and blizzard pets were notoriously buggy during that time (never forget when leaving your pet out and taking the Kara teleporter would lead to it running through the whole dungeon to catch up, instead of teleporting, and causing a wipe when literally every mob showed up to kick your ass) so I liked having the disposable thing for extra DPS and as an off tank during easy content; but the idea of putting the majority of my damage weight into it was sketch at best. Especially since a lot of bosses weren't very pet friendly. I had prog gear, I knew my rotation perfectly - I knew the fights. So I get an invitation to join one of my server's upper rank guilds; the kind of guys who try for world first but never get it, basically. Their GM was also a hunter and boy oh boy did he love beast mastery. The test to get in was, of course, a DPS test to make sure I'm up to snuff and through the entire run he's telling me I should switch spec, that MM does less damage, etc. And then we get to the boss. The advantage of MM back in the day was that it was very good at burst damage, you would burn through a truly obscene amount of potions but you could do unholy amounts of damage if you were good; Mages would throw fits about this because thanks to misdirect and feign death, a hunter didn't have to watch their aggro near as much as they did and it was easy to top the charts. And so, when we did this boss; I topped the chart. And the GM of the guild I was applying to flipped out, accusing me of hacking the game and saying it was impossible for me to do more damage than him and that not only was I not getting into the guild, but he was going to tell everyone else that I was a cheater too so I couldn't get into any of the high end guilds on the server.

And as long winded as this has been - I feel it basically explains why I think parsers are dumb. They attract a crowd of people with the biggest, but most absolutely fragile, egos who piss on everyone else and take what is otherwise a fun experience (raiding) and make it suck because they just drag it down miserably with their brain worms. I don't care if you use a parser in private. I don't think anyone does, and if they do; they won't know. It's never the private parsers people take issue with. It's the loud clowns that ruin it all for everyone.

[Myrany]

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I remember in gnomergan I was running it on an alt hunter character during wrath. I dismissed my pet before the big jump down. The warlock didn't and was running her blueberry as well. Just as you said that stupid voidwalker ran the long way around pulling every MOB in sight onto the group. Tank says"Kick the hunter they didnt dismiss their voidwalker". Next thing I saw was YOU HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE PARTY. For those that never played WoW the Voidwalker is a Warlock pet not a hunter pet.

Just thought I would inject a little funny memory lane