Parsers make you stupid

[Bishop81]

Problem is that some encounters do not allow you to turtle through the fight, as evident with the many enrage timers in a lot of the eencounters. Having your party wipe to an encounter due to lack of damage output is easy to see, but as to who or what is causing it - you would need to take a few to go through the battle logs and calculate everything by hand. Parsers just compile the data to make it easier to see.

/start rant; no offense, just needed to get it off my chest (edit: not necessarily targeted at you)

What do you do with that data? Compare it with the rest of your teammates? What will that prove? You failed the encounter because your raid DPS wasn't high enough.

What are you going to do? Come to the forums and QQ that your DPS is 1% lower than the top DPS in your group and beg for buffs? Great, just great, we need more of that. Ever thought that different Jobs might have different DPS in different situations because *grasp* they have different mechanics? Or are you one of those that insist that everyone has to output the same DPS in all situations? Homogeneous classes. Is that what you want?

To quote Ghostcrawler,

If the WoW devs read this, how likely would it be for them to agree? http://t.co/CIM3r2TTrL
I never felt like all classes had to be equal in all things. Can't someone just be better at burst AE? (OccupyGStreet)

Does Blizzard worry most about dps balance as raid tiers open, and not that much about balance as ppl start farming the tier?
Can't speak for it now, but when I was there, we worried more about new content than farmed content balance. (OccupyGStreet)
The idea being that a low performing spec might get sat on a new boss, but unlikely when stuff was on farm. (OccupyGStreet)
At some point we as a community started worrying about an individual's "right" to high DPS rather than the DPS of the entire raid. (OccupyGStreet)
Rather than "Did we beat the boss?" it became "Did I beat my warlock friend?" (OccupyGStreet)

DPS check will be overcome with time anyway as you get better gear. Is it really necessary to kill yourself over it? It's a video game.

/end rant