Parsers and Problems

[Ashkendor]

I could get behind the parser crowd if they were honest about why they want it. All this talk about "bettering the community" is nauseating. You want a parser to single out and kick "bad" dps. Just say that and move on. Its not as if a parser will make a bad dps good, so stop acting as if itll help them.

The issue here is that bad is relative, especially when youre using arbitrary numbers to make that determination.

I bet you'd kick a tank that didn't keep his enmity above the "arbitrary number" of "higher than the DPS/heals".

I bet you'd kick a healer that didn't keep the party's HP above the "arbitrary number" of zero.

The numbers aren't arbitrary when you're talking about things like enrage mechanics. The only people I see not wanting parsers are people that would rather no-worries button-mash on DPS than have some actual freakin responsibility to the other people in the party. That's just it though - we already take care of it if the content isn't getting cleared. Enough people already use parsers that horrendous DPS frequently find themselves kicked. The problem stems from the fact that right now they generally have no idea why they were kicked so they do nothing to improve. We can't confront them because we use third party software for parsing. Given a choice between risking a ban and some randie you'll never see again not knowing why he got kicked, it's obvious which one people will take. An ingame parser makes it so there is irrefutable evidence that awful DPS are doing something wrong.