This is why this game should'nt get a parse

[Tangster85]

If you ask me, its simple. Numbers don't lie, they are numbers - people on the other hand lie.

If you do low DPS, parser is not a tool to put blame, its a tool to wake you up from your slumber in which you imagine yourself a good player. I'm going to ignore the dying to everything, because that rarely wakes bad players up.

Imagine a butter knife, it can be used to spread butter or kill people. It just depends how you decide to utilize it.

If I tell you that your DPS is very low for a 340 Machinist, you can get really upset how someone on the internet is rude, or you can do something about it. A parser here will help you, if you however are of the first category, then I'm sorry but parses are not your only problem, you've got way bigger ones.

[KaivaC]

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Agreed. I've fallen off of raiding lately to take care of other things I want to do in-game, but the occasional times I have run savage as my RDM, I will ask for my parse number and only mines. Thus far at ilvl333, I'm hitting 3.7k, so I have a lot of room to improve. Why did I bring up my number just now? Well, for those who don't understand why my number irritates me, I can just look up in fflogs my number compared to the other RDMs who've done the same fight and figure out what they did that I didn't. Honestly, I'm rather disappointed that I could only hit 3.7k.

To the anti-parser crowd, I didn't have any drama, didn't cause any fights by requesting what my number was while we were farming. So why is this a bad thing? Or even a personal parser so you can have your own numbers available when you need it, and then compare it to what you can look up in fflogs?