I'm unsure about parsers. I mostly play healers (and mostly SCH at that) so it's pretty easy for me (and everyone else in the group) to tell if I'm doing okay. I've healed up to Final Coil raids, not progressing any further with that currently because it's hard to find folks interested in doing old content. I am definitely not AlexS ready, I'm sure, though I'm not incompetent by any means. I'd call myself a casual because I'm not all that bothered about raid progression; it's generally something I look to do further down the line and mostly with friends.

I'm levelling my BLM currently - semi-levelling anyway - so that I can be a bit more fluid when it comes to content. Some of my friends have only healers at 60; if I don't have another role to fill, I don't get to play content with them. I am finding BLM post 56 very intimidating. I'd like a personal parser in-game so I can try and work out for myself the best ways to maintain enochian, how long I can safely hold onto a proc, the best times to use key-lines. That kind of thing. But - and for me this is a very big BUT - I'm already terrified to go into dungeons with folk I don't know because I'm scared they won't take on board that I'm new to this, new to those dungeons as a DPS, and trying my hardest. I know just a couple of personal attacks will be enough to shatter my confidence completely, at which point I'll go back to avoiding DPS jobs completely. Playing a deeps fills me with terror; how do you guys deal with the grief you get?!

I guess what I'm saying is that - yeah, I get that you don't want to carry someone, but can't you try and be a little patient with those of us at the start of a pretty steep learning curve. I know it will take me a lot of practise to pick up all the nuances to getting good at BLM; if I get abused in a dungeon because I haven't made it there yet, I'll most likely just give up. I'm not an incompetent player, I do okay on healer, but healing doesn't scare the bejesus out of me! My BLM will be relatively well geared because I've been using my law tomes to do that, but it won't have the expertise for some time that will allow me to pull out 800-1k DPS. If I can parse myself, I can study what works and what doesn't. If someone else can parse me, and they're a dick about my crap effort, that's not going make my day more sunny and fluffy-bunny filled!