Would you like an in-game parser?

[Taika]

Most of the talk I see from the pro parser community correlates to weeding out bad players, saving time, lowering frustations... etc... Very rarely do you run into an actual conversation promoting parsers as a tool for self improvement

Really? Your reading is very selective. Here's a few examples just from the first 3 pages (on my settings) of this thread:

Yes I would lik one. I would like to know if I'm where I should be on my DPS.

Yes please, I would like to play my AST at my maximum capacity on an official level ^_______^

Yes, I would like an in-game parser. I want to better myself as a player for the various types of content that I do, and a parser would be among one of the many things to help with that.

I would like to see where my dps goes up or down so I can improve without having to ask someone on PC to run a certain piece of content with me just to see.

i support a personal parser. I'd like to see if changes I make to my gear or rotations are positive changes or not.

Of course parsers are also needed to show the group DPS issues in the content where group DPS matters (enrages), and obviously people talk about that too, but a lot of the discussion is also about self improvement (and group improvement! you can't fix issues if you don't know where they come from).