Parsers make you stupid

[Meya]

Learning is fine, if the group is ok with it. Parsers also show damage taken so you can see what is killing people. But we already have tools to see people who don't do mechanics, eyeballs and healers. You're right about the parser and high dps. You just have to go to a Web page where some math nerd took a bunch of parses and crunched the numbers to figure out the optimal way to play the class. BTW I love you math nerds and all the people who put in the time and work on theory crafting.

Can a parser show a tank's TP because when I played a ninja I never knew when to throw out a goude >> Think they'd allow us to see TP already.

[Kosmos992k]

Can a parser show a tank's TP because when I played a ninja I never knew when to throw out a goude >> Think they'd allow us to see TP already.

'course the tank could always have a macro to ping party chat with a message, something like; "MT TP < 150, please help."

[Sessurea]

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Parsers are good, but stop playing with trash already lol. if someone bat mouthed my dps and I was getting targeted often with mechanics I'd hang him out to dry. It takes a moron to reach that level of stupidity.

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

Parsers are a tool, tools are not to blame for their missuse, is not a hammer`s fault that someone kills other with it.

The intended use of parsers is to see and evaluate performance, people usually don`t know how to evaluate and how to generate a good evualation and performance increase enviroment, and then, you have mmorpg people which is just worse. They faithfully think they are doing just fine when they say "uhh, you suck scrub, DPS too low". They think they are great and that will motivate you to perform better.

[Delily]

Instead of using a one-liner with an era 2000 emoticon, could you expand?

You missed the point. He was "underperforming", and yet the dungeon was cleared in 16 minutes. Parsers make people focus on a number, not clearing content.

[Waliel]

I'll be quoting myself, because I'm lazy, but I'd like to remind everyone about this neat tidbit about parsing:

There's more to parsing than just DPS. We did our first real venture into T13 this thursday and kept wondering why is our WHM randomly dying on Megaflare stacks. Checking out our trusty parser, it turned out she was hit twice by Megaflare for 5k+. We adjusted by telling everyone to spread out a little more and never had the issue again.

[Kosmos992k]

I'll be quoting myself, because I'm lazy, but I'd like to remind everyone about this neat tidbit about parsing:

I'm pretty sure your WHM's battle log could have revealed that information as well, no parser required.

[Chasely]

Your WHM couldn't tell they were hit by megaflare without a parser?

[dragorian]

Who the heck need's an parser all you need to do is set up your battle log to show your dmg and do the math it's not hard heck you can also tell you is lacking or over compasating I'd this and as an whm I know my hps also I have never had an issue with others about dps or hps is low I set up my rot before hand for the content I'm doing and you can tell by just watching what the person is doing

[Eye_Gore]

Who the heck need's an parser all you need to do is set up your battle log to show your dmg

I said this once in another thread about not having a sanctioned parser, man did I hear about it.