Quote Originally Posted by TheUltimateSeph View Post
I said nearly all HW content, normal dungeons and raids. Of course this doesn't include savage, duh. I'm not sure what WoW players you play with but most I come across won't even talk to you if your numbers aren't high enough.
The randoms I played with with kindly helped me out with my rotations and gave advice for what stats to focus when they saw I was struggling with my numbers a bit. I honestly found the ability to have a parser (and addons in general) to be one of the best features of the game.

If people are going to harass, they are already doing it. They can also just claim that they came to the number from keep an eye on the battle logs, mentally calculating it. You technically can estimate dps like this; it probably isn't practical but you technically can. People can just say they used that instead of a parser while still using the parser to get the actual number. Parsers themselves don't collect data directly from the game, they just read the data as it goes through the memory, so there would be no signs of it that SE could detect. All they have to go on are chat logs. It won't cause elitism to spread because elitism is already there, they are already using parsers.

Honestly, the people I see this helping the most are the ones that are willing to get better, but just don't know their output. The lack of official parsers actually makes it harder to help the people who would want help because the current ones are technically against the ToS. Just like how you can't openly use a parser to harass someone, you really can't openly use a parser to help someone without risking yourself. It works both ways.