Quote Originally Posted by TaleraRistain View Post
I think you can kind of see the answer from some replies on this thread. Some people get their knickers in a twist if someone else, even in basic MSQ content, is not playing the way they think and want them to. Since they go in with expectations toward other people, they get upset by the data provided by the parser. Those who are using it for self improvement don't get upset, because they are going in with a mindset of using the data to enrich themselves in some manner.

For people who get depressed by the numbers X or Y class does, they sound like they aren't playing the class for the right reasons. If you love the class, don't let someone else's opinion or expectations make you hate it.
Yeah, because expecting people to perform reasonably well in any content is such a terrible and unreasonable thing to do... I dont want to turn this into another "Stories from the Duty Finder"-thread, but to illustrate what I mean I'll still share this story from yesterdays expert roulette, which was done parser-free btw but still left me quite annoyed, since I had the (obviously totally wrong and missplaced!) expectation that someone who's reached level 80 would know the basics of their class and someone who wasnt new to the dungeon would also be able to perform the simple boss-mechanics Amarout offers.
Not so the WHM in this case: Cure-spam, regen placed on between/during pulls while I'm at fullhealth, MedicaII-spam, I saw excatly one Holy being cast the entire dungeon, I never saw the bubble, he died during the first boss AND during the last boss - during the last boss because despite him spamming Cure the whole time he didnt heal himself up before raid-damage happend - at that point the boss was at 60% and we still made it, thanks to Clemency.
I dont need a parser here to be annoyed that someone whos reached level 80 with their job doesnt seem to have the faintest idea how to play it properly.

This "anti-paser" crowd likes to portrait people who uses parsers as people who'll yell at anyone who isnt pulling at the very least purple parses! But thats simply not true - I cant recall if I've ever seen someone being called out in DF over a parse at all, but I know that anything we share in our FC or amongst friends isnt "Oh, this samurai is only pulling a green parse, what a noob!" but rather "...guys, I have this samurai whos pulling something like 2k... that would have been okay-ish at the end of HW, right?"
In my experience is far more likely to run into someone who is severly underperforming, to a point when it feels to me that one can say hes not meeting the reasonable expectation we should have of someone whos doing max-level content than to meet someone who'll throw a fit over a BLM dealing 14k instead of 17k.

In regards to the job-dps: I love my bard and its the only dps I actually play (RDM only if I have a pretty mage-glamour I wanna show off). To me its the most fun and engaging dps to play, so I'm sticking with it. But based on the needs of a team I'll switch. Its not making me outright depressed (which is to big of a word to throw around in this context anyways), but it will leave me with a heavy sigh.

You guys are welcome to live in your little bubble where everyone is nice and nothing matters, so you dont need to care - about your performance, about your teammate, about job-balance... bursting this bubble is totally possible without parsers, though. You need to close your eyes to way more than ACT.