Quote Originally Posted by Laerune View Post
where you got this from? Is it from a past experience and if it is, was it with friends or a whole community?
Anyone with a prerogative to parse troll is already doing it. Handing a parse to players who don't currently troll won't suddenly make them into parse trolling monsters.

A parse just compiles all the info in the battle log into an easy to decipher format. By making this already available information more clear, it allows players to better analyze how they're playing the game and where they can stand to improve.

The fear of a parse troll is a hyperbolic, boogeyman argument against having a meter built into the game. I have a friend list and FC filled with people who always run a parse for all the content they run; despite that, they never mention a player's damage numbers outside of people subbing into a static, because that's when it makes a difference between wiping and clearing.