How would an optional, official parser be toxic?

[TaranTatsuuchi]

I originally started neutral to the idea of an ingame parser, I didn't really care one way or the other.
I just try and do the best I can when I play...


But, over time, hearing the debates on both sides of the parser discussion...
I found that the arguments of the anti-parser people just seemed nonsensical.

They converted me to be pro-parser.





There is a problem of obfuscating data in this game...
They refuse to put in a way for people to see how well they're actually performing, but continually put in requirements on that performance in the form of DPS checks.

That just seems monumentally silly.


I can't see how people having the objective information available to them, which would allow them to help the people underperforming, is a bad thing.





Harassment over a parser is a non issue, because that's already against the terms of service for the game.
Adding a tool doesn't change that fact.

Perhaps the gm's may have to look into reports of parser harassment...
But that's their job in the first place!
They should be willing to do that... (Or find another form of employment, if they don't want to do what their job requires)