Parsers

[KyroeFelix]

I can look at their character to see if they are actually playing or just spamming 2 moves.

So because you watch someone pop all their cooldowns and use all of their physical damage skills, that means they are playing properly and contributing sufficiently to the damage pool? Not at all. I get the argument that if the job gets done, it's a good day. But if someone can improve and you have a tool to help you show them, why wouldn't you use it? THAT is what most groups running a parse do with the information.

And as I said before, those people you know obviously don't understand stand that much of the game if they have to use a third party program to tell them if someone is doing max Dps.

Using a parse to pull information doesn't mean you don't understand the game. That's like telling someone who uses a graphing calculator they don't understand graphing because they didn't do it by hand.

To the whole "you can see it without a parser bit".. I bet you can.. but with Twintania, Titan, Garuda.. I'm more paying attention to the things I'm tanking, the boss's rotation, and the things I'm dodging than I am a specific person to see if maybe the right buffs aren't flashing up on them. It's a bit ridiculous to expect people to pay attention to all a boss's mechanics, plus track 7 other people in the party (in which you'd also have to know the correct rotations for every class by heart to make sure they're doing it right). But somehow expecting a person to do that is fine, but expecting someone to hold their dps for fights that do have dps checks isn't?

Also, SO MUCH THIS^^^^