SE's most difinitive statement yet on parsers

[Appleh4x]

so what ? you learn as you go, parsers in this case will just be a luxury to allow people that play to reach a certain point fastser without putting fowards a *progressive* effort which goes through an *apprenticeship* of sort of your own limits and your own improvements. Parsers will allow you to point fingers, get rid of so called not up to paar people (dont say is not the case it is), vs having to grow with your group. It isnt important the zillions of damage you have to do in what limited span of time, you will know if you succeed or fail, if you fail, wasnt enough if you succeed was enough, who is low or not isnt the problem. If you want truely to find out who is low and who is not go on a dummy which can be assimilated to a modern third party tool or parser (spread allover the place) and hit them with the combos and the like in turn and check there your respective dps not as accurate as a computer but still a good tool..old style fashion type....you have there a antique tool that works fine would I say. But of course, it requires cohesion and teamwork and time .... time that an T9 should require invested into without using *cheats of sort* (cant find another word to define it) ohh wait all have their schedule and hunt times, so nahh not going to happen right ?...so lets use the parser !

besides, how were you going about before parsers were so much easy to use ? no?

See my point?...they arent a necessity, they are not required, they are just there to be a nuisance to players that just want to enjoy the game and not be harrassed by immature childish and overall uneducated people that are so obnubilated by the game that all matters is to be THE one that reaches t he end and can then go around pouffing chests ....I think this community should really requestion itself.

Just me though

Mei

The issue is that you have a totally misguided view on parsers. My static group has never kicked anyone for low DPS, we work with each other to figure out how to maximize damage all around and beat the checks. The parser just gives data on potential problems and so that we players can correct them. It also gives you information like how many times you miss so you know if you need more accuracy, can tell you how often you mitigate for tanks, how much overhealing is done by healers, etc. It's a tool that is helpful in fine tuning your team to overcome poorly implemented fights. I'm not saying I use a parser, but I am saying that they benefit raid teams in a completely non dramatic way when used correctly and without malice (how they were intended.)