Built-in Parsers

[Deithwen]

Just because it doesn't give you a nice flashy number doesn't mean it gives you nothing. If you managed to kill it, it means you were able to sustain a certain amount of damage over time. How is that not parsing? It's just the game that decides if it's good enough instead of any one player. Switch it around, if you are unable to kill the dummy in time, it means you absolutely will be carried if you go into the trial the dummy is for, where on top of having to do damage, you also need to do mechanics.
It tells you what you need to know, just not in a way you want to hear it.

Hiting a dummy for 3 minutes is totally different from a real fight. Some people can manage their rotation and yet be completly unable to perform it during a real fight, resulting in a very low dps contribution. The same people can think "but I can clear the dummy, my dps must be good enough" and thus think they can't be the reason of wipes during enrage or failure to dps checks.

[Ilan]

Hiting a dummy for 3 minutes is totally different from a real fight. Some people can manage their rotation and yet be completly unable to perform it during a real fight, resulting in a very low dps contribution. The same people can think "but I can clear the dummy, my dps must be good enough" and thus think they can't be the reason of wipes during enrage or failure to dps checks.

Exactly but thats what people never get into their heads but they also don't understand that a parser is so much more than just a thing that shows your dps.