Quote Originally Posted by DenebPunkin View Post
People have stated a positive outcome.. not positive outcomes. The negatives FAR outweigh any "positive" it "may" bring to the table. You want DPS to get better, have Yoshi P force them to go through tutorials that show them the simple rotations, the positionals required and the weaving of skills between other skills. To assume that by adding an app that throws numbers out will somehow magically make all DPSers better is a false conclusion. And as you said, jerks will be jerks.. and now you are giving these jerks more tools to be even bigger jerks with.
I have only ever been kicked for low dps in this game out of my 10+ years of playing MMOs. The only game I have been kicked is the one without a parser or at least a means to discuss quantifiable dps in a constructive manner. I was #2 dps (8 man content) during those attempts but could not actually defend myself other than telling them the problem was not with me.

I personally have only been negatively affected by the current state of dps affairs in this game. So all the anecdotes in the world, all the theories about wrecking the community and arguments for running races without stopwatches being good for the community don't seem more than fear mongering. The negatives for parsers are just as much "maybe scenarios" as the positives. Both arguments are filled with anecdotes and possibilities. My personal experience leads me to a different conclusions than the anti parser crowd.

Parsers will not make people better but it will let some people know where they really stand. I mean how many times have you seen a group failing on a dps check and the guy doing half the damage says. "Well it can't be me, I've cleared this before." Yeah buddy, I'm sorry you have no real gauge of your ability and previous experiences have led you to false conclusions.

The rabbit hole of removing tools to prevent harassment is a place I don't want to go. As you said jerks will be jerks. They just now have real information, so they are just educated jerks now. At least everyone is educated. If you get kicked for low dps and you are doing fine, you can laugh it off as I did in my anecdote. Or if you have low dps for the content you know you've got some learning/practice to do.

Why do we think having our head in the sand is a good thing? Why are we arguing to remain ignorant of how we perform? Why are we, as a community, letting a handful of jerks (or fear of them) determine what features we get in this game? This does not seem like a healthy outcome. I'm all for discussing curbing harassment but I personally don't feel limiting tools is the solution and I don't like fear of harassment determining the direction of our game.