Would you like an in-game parser?

[Dement]

I think the analogies of school grades are pretty accurate. Everyone gets a number from a test and they have a right to not show it to their peers. This could be a different case in your country. I've seen pupils afraid or attention for both good and bad grades, annoyed by their not-high-enough-grade, satisfied with their grade, bullied for their grade, congratulated for their grade, unable to get a higher grade because of their mental limitations, unable to get a higher grade because they just don't put in enough effort to practice, and getting ridiculously competitive over grades. Now bear in mind, everyone knows what the best grade, the lowest grade and the average grades are because the grading system is known to all. There is no need to compare to peers because the scale is already known. Everyone has extensive experience getting graded. Yet, that doesn't change the fact that half the people don't get the grade that represents "good" performance. Knowing their previous grade very rarely resulted in a better grade next time as far as I saw. Even in the case of co-operative projects and tasks that affect every team member's grade, people performed at their usual level.

I fear that the analogy does indeed break down due to the nature of the game. While it is fine for some to show their grade and some to hide their grade for whatever reason they so desire in school; it would be a bit different of a story if the Teacher/Professor suddenly claimed "the entire class passes or the entire class fails based off of if the class can average an 85%" (a DPS check). Also as a fun infusion of chaos a full 1/3 to 1/2 of the class will not even know their grade (PS4 players and those who refuse to parse or listen to parsed numbers) at any given time. Now, how does the class move forward? Who needs additional help and tutoring? If you were going to fail for reasons completely outside of your own control, would you not want to know about it to try to avoid such a fate?

If you understand that some people don't want to participate in a competitive environment or activity, then would you be fine with letting people to hide their dps from others and hide others' dps from themselves? Talking about all content except Extremes and Savage.

I am perfectly fine with parsers being limited to Extremes and Savage unless they release other content that has very stringent DPS checks. Parsers can help teams get through DPS checks, that's their purpose. Additionally, I would reiterate once again that parsers need to be a part of training dummies so that someone can actually practice to improve.