If running a parser makes you cynical and depressed, why do it?

[Goji1639]

Vidu,

Besides a handful of the trials the leveling content is completely trivial. Believing you're carrying anyone through it is a bit off-base; it's designed to carry the entire team through it basically regardless of skill, by being ridiculously easy. It's not challenging and it's not supposed to be.

Not that I'm saying you should tolerate someone AFKing through an entire dungeon, but being optimal is hardly necessary and the ONLY reason you would need parsers in that content is optimization. Your input on other peoples optimization isn't necessary for that content, so your opinion that you need the means to force it on people is just arrogant. In that content parsers just create unnecessary toxic hostility towards new or struggling players.

Beyond that, I'm really not interested in arguing anecdotes. I've seen plenty of completely pointless fights break out in trivial content over who's out-damaging who. It's dumb and it's not needed. I don't see any reason to call new players out when the run is going fine, and I never will. It's just discouraging how much of this community feels it's "necessary" to single out struggling players in trivial content, for some obtuse sense of making this content more "serious" and less fun than it's supposed to be.

Save the nitpicking at people for content that has enrage timers. The story is scaled so low that a toddler could complete it easily for a reason, so people can just relax and have fun.