Quote Originally Posted by Chif View Post
Without parse you can't improve your dps and skills.
This is the biggest fallacy about parsing. All parsing is is a measurement of arbitrary numbers. As has been said, repeatedly, parsers don't get the big picture. Don't see the fight as it's happening, it just tallies the numbers and spits out an average. It takes knowledge and awareness to get the full picture. A Monk who's having to constantly dodge aoe is going to have terrible numbers, a Bard that's singing is going to have terrible numbers. You can't just rely on one metric in a game that has many mechanics that can't be ignored. That said, I'm not going to say parsers can't be useful, but only so long as they are kept private and optional. I'm not patient enough to weather more people like that tank in Fractal.