Built-in Parsers

[Taika]

But even there it's not necessary. You can just as well discuss with your party members why an attempt failed. In fact, that will generally do better for you than simply having the parser give out everyone's numbers, because although low DPS can cause a wipe, it's far from being the only problem that can. The combination of personal parsers and a group willing to talk to each other gives you everything a party-wide parser would.

Imagine a situation: a group will keep wiping to enrage despite all members having capped item level gear, no one is failing mechanics and dying, and everyone seems to be doing their correct rotation. The issue is clearly DPS, so party leader asks everyone to call out their personal parser numbers. Everyone is calling numbers high enough that the party should clear the fight without an issue. Of course the real problem is, one or more people are lying. They can be lying because they know their performance is far from decent, or they can be lying because their performance is just a tiny bit under what it should be (while someone else is doing significantly worse). Same with healing: one healer calls a high HPS number, the other one calls one really close to it. Both of them are lying, but no one will know. People who are currently using the dont ask dont tell policy to blame others for their shortcomings could keep doing just that (I have seen people getting kicked for "low DPS" while people doing the kicking were in fact doing much worse, and no one could defend them because they'd risk getting reported and banned).

A group parser would do absolutely no harm, but it would add transparency, and as such, fairness.

Obviously, a group should talk about performance, and parse numbers aren't the only thing that matter: they need to be put in context. But what's a better start for good party discussion about strategies to reach the common goal than knowing where the party is currently standing? Why would there be a need to hide that knowledge? In all likelihood people would just get asked to take screenshots of their logs for others to view or something ridiculous as that (or people would just keep using 3rd party group parsers to see if people are telling the truth about their personal numbers)...