How would an optional, official parser be toxic?

[KaivaC]

4 digit number tells you nothing. your huge variance is prob due to aoe and multiple mob summoners do better when they are multiple targets to hit.

Ah... I should clarify. I haven't touched summoner in months. My main is ninja. Which is affected a lot by tanks lately that like to spin the boss.

[thegreatonemal]

Ah... I should clarify. I haven't touched summoner in months. My main is ninja. Which is affected a lot by tanks lately that like to spin the boss.

Your issue is uptime. melees have much more to deal with than ranged. Chances are you aren't nw or ne in most position starts which you should be as it hurts your uptime if you aren't. You aren't using you gap closer to get right back on the boss if it moves to the other side of the map. You're not being greedy when it comes to dodging aoes or realizing how some of them work. Basically its the little things that are leading to the variance you are seeing. A parser will help improve none of that what will those is getting to know how the game functions better and what you as a melee can do to increase your uptime. They might seem small or don't matter much but over the course of a 10-13 minute fight they add up

Greed is the name of the game when it comes to melee dps.

[KaldeaSahaline]

And you made the very same assumption yourself. I mean, I guess it could stand the reason that he utilizes FFlogs for information, but doesn't actually have the parser...but that's a bit far fetched isn't it? You assumed he made the last comment based on looking at the FFlogs website, much like my assumption that he is using ACT himself...we will never truly know...but a bit of the pot calling the kettle black there.

I'm fine with your other responses. They make sense.

However, I wanted to key in on this last bit. It's not the assumption you made that I took issue with (it's a perfectly reasonable assumption). It was the broad brush you used that assumption on to paint ALL players who parse into a bucket.

The bottom line is if tomorrow SE decided to unleash an unmitigated fully in depth parser the world wouldn't end. There'd be some reports and growing pains and then the community would stabilize. It's not like by implementing it it's allowing open doors to harassment and vulgarity and the fact that you even tried to cite that as a valid reason was disingenuous at best.