How would an optional, official parser be toxic?

[Dualgunner]

Never seen someone pull mental gymnastics like that before just so they can bring up their political opinion on a video game forum.

I've seen people liken parsers to the second amendment before. It's always about as convincing as the post you just read.

[Speaks]

I've seen people liken parsers to the second amendment before. It's always about as convincing as the post you just read.

Both comparisons are ignorant of anything they are trying to address. Why bother making it at all. Trying to start a political flamewar on a gaming forum is just goofy.

Actually on topic now;

Players are already parsing and using that knowledge to kick you and others. If it was officially allowed the only thing you can expect to change is:

PS4 players will be able to see their own damage and have an easier time improving themselves.
You will know why you got kicked. You will obviously still get kicked, that was going to happen regardless. But at least now you have a goal set to hit to improve youself on.

In my eyes SE has two options.

They can either keep their official stance on no parsing. That is fine, and I will accept that in it's entirety but with one caveat; all content regardless of difficulty up to and including Ultimate has to be able to be cleared with 2 competent DPS, 1 competent healer and a single competent tank. No hard enrages, no DPS checks, no forced tank swaps. After all, your DPS doesn't matter.

They can keep their current fight design. This is perfectly fine and I will accept that in it's entirety, but with one caveat; Parsers are open in content. After all, your DPS matters.