Quote Originally Posted by Penthea View Post
No my parse hate comes from my time in WoW in which parsing was often used as a platform to be needlessly horrible to other people, and I have had to endure countless wipes (with randoms and with guilds) because dps were intentionally hitting the wrong target as it made them look better on meters.

I don't deny parsing is a useful tool. However like any tool it can be abused to some degree, and the potential abuse with parsing is very high. Many players use the mentor tag to appear pro even though many don't play properly, and the same thing happens with parsing.

The unfortunate truth is an enormous amount of players don't know the difference between good dps, and having dps on the correct targets. They look at a meter and assume whoever is on top must be the best.

My experience in WoW differs greatly from yours. I've never seen anyone berated for low DPS in my over 12 years of playing it; if anything, instance runs are quiet, and ironically outside of Mythic and LFR (which is a cesspool of a different sort), DPS hasn't been an issue that's talked about. These days especially, people that post meters to boast are often given little attention, since people just want to get in and get out ASAP. I only really noticed a downturn when LFD was introduced and any sense of server community started to disappear.

And being real here, a meter isn't going to make the difference in focusing down targets. If they were tunneling and padding with a parser, they were going to do tunnel anyway. That also applies to assholes, who will be assholes regardless.