Quote Originally Posted by Bonkleberry View Post
I am not worried about harassment. It just becomes a reality of the end game that I would be forced to cookie cutter my build to my role and use these programs myself if I want to be included in anything serious. Cookie cutter builds are just boring and steal fun from the game
So "fun" is sucking at doing your job at the expense of your party members who have to compensate for you? FFXIV is a fun game, but there really is no variation in effective "builds" or anything.
There is the "I can heal through heavy raid-wide DMG and brutal tankbusters" build and there is the "My healing can't save anyone" build. That's it.

If you want to be included in something serious, make a serious effort, easy as that. People (potentially) kick you because you don't do your job well, parser or not.
Having one just makes it easier to notice, but it's not like failing isn't obvious otherwise. If you are worried about people being mean to you based on parser results - UnaLihzeh already said it: that's strictly forbidden and you can absolutely report someone for it.

I find it kind of mind-boggling though how you can indirectly say "I want to suck at this game but still get carried through hard content without getting called out on it" without feeling any shame. I'll just assume you are not aware yet that there IS only one effective way per class to play and that's why you said all of that..since you do not know yet that anything but cookiecutter just means sucking really hard.