Quote Originally Posted by Kosmos992k View Post
That's some pretty good hyperbole putting a parser on the same level as a school report card. Though to take your thought, a parser is more like a pointless pop quiz, your raid wide completion might be a close analog to a report card.
Except that's exactly what it is. It's a measurement of how good you're performing at a given task, and giving it a grade. A parser might be more of a pointless pop quiz when people use it in faceroll DF dungeons, but it's an important tool for measuring raidwide contribution, figuring out where your weak links are, and where you can improve. Practically essential if you want to really take raiding seriously and not hold down your team.

That said, you can also complete fights by getting carried, especially in this cycle. I've seen a lot of people clear A12S just because they have time to bash their faces into it for days upon days on end, waiting for the team where they get lucky enough to have their slack picked up.

Saying that success is measured only by completion is like saying that you earned that A while you napped while the rest of your group pulled your slack and did your work for you. It's something that's really hard to appreciate if you don't raid, since 4 man dungeons don't have hard enrages or DPS checks.