How would an optional, official parser be toxic?

[Maeka]

People either consciously or subconsciously are always trying to rank themselves against others. Because of that, they will tend to make decisions about a person only by their numbers and not any other factor. When I played wow and had a parser, I found myself subconsciously saying this person is bad because they are doing half the dps of the other dps. When I got away from parsers by coming here, I adopted this philosophy: If the boss is dead, we had fun, got our goodies and had a good time... who cares what they parsed.uou rise and fall as a team, there are more than enough tools to identify payers having a problem in this game.

If we really want an official parser, let’s try this: Create the Hall of the Raider and have that room use the official parser while you work on the dummy with RNG events happening around you. You can work on your rotation while dealing with random mechanics. They wouldn’t be too intense but the random mechanics would simulate a raiding run to a degree.

While I agree with this, there are times that we will struggle and struggle and struggle through fights, and I'm scratching my head wondering why... is one of the DPS not doing their job? Why is this so hard when we all appear to have decent gear judging from our health meters?

And then I can get that someone might go "am *I* the one missing cooldowns and having a terrible rotation?"

So yes, I'd like to have a private-only DPS meter so I could actually figure out how to do things better on my own.

[Maeka]

Yeah, Tank/DPS stance should be a choice you make, depending on the situation.

Even in Mist Dragon, switching to DPS when he brings out the heads is awesome. Staying in Tank Stance is not, especially if we eat the AoE because the heads didn't die fast enough.

But, from what I see a lot of tanks doing, it's "Always DPS Stance on Boss, All the Time" and I've even seen a couple tanks doing it on Mist Dragon and also the poo monster at the end of Mocianne's. Slime gets hit twice and is about to explode.... tank has DPS stance on. Awesome.