People advertising they're running Parsers

[Rolder50]

Except it's time for a bit of truth over the new EX trial parsers especially.

I'm now the highest achievable iLevel with a fine tuned build, still fine tuning my rotation and always pull my weight, but my parse is only green...

I checked to see if this was on me, but then I noticed something after checking the purple and orange parse results in my job....

They are doing absolutely horrible dps during both EX add phases (some drop as low as 2k dps), because unlike previous EXes the add phase doesn't count toward your result and guess what that means?

They're getting carried by others in the add phase because they value a parse result over consistent clearing, their greed is actually endangering runs of failing because they're not using their rotation and tools as they're supposed to, to clear the add phase.

And guess what happens if the add phase does fail because say only 1 of the 4 is using their tools correctly? They instantly leave in a huff.

Why would you not Apex/Blast arrow the lined up adds? Why would you not fire off Radiant Finale/BV to make the add phase as smooth as possible? Greedy, Selfish desire to have a top parse.

I take absolutely massive exception to this kind of behaviour and will blacklist anyone I suspect of holding the team back on account of their own parse.

Your parse means nothing if you are going to potentially cause a wipe because "buh add phase don't count"

This is my problem with parse obsession, this will always be my problem with parse obsession and it's something I stand fully behind.

The tool is for self improvement, for tidying up where you go wrong

Not for getting your backside carried through certain phases because "it doesn't effect your score"

I went to go double check if this is true, and from what I can gather, the default metric used for ranks is purely "Damage" with "Damage to Bosses" being a different metric you can select if you want. Hell, the main metric used for ranking the jobs is also just the Damage metric. I then went and checked some of the top scorers and wasn't able to find any examples of this. It'd be great if you could present what you are seeing, otherwise it seems like you're just making stuff up.