What is parsing?

[Shurrikhan]

Overall parsers are used by those who focus on end game content such as Savage and up. Casuals usually steer clear from them.

They're used by those who want information beyond what little the game itself provides and which they can actually play around and experiment with in real time, usually so they can learn from it. No more, no less.

[Ariel_Valmont]

a (hypothetical and "official" parser) would show them - and everyone else in the party - that they were the ones playing bad, though
it would show players that their damage is bad and that they'd need to improve it, it'd show arrogant players that boast about their insane damage - while they're doing less than the two healers - that they're in fact dragging everyone else down and hopefully make them rethink their behaviour and get them to improve their performance

No one likes being stuck in a party with someone like your example, but an “official” parser isn’t going to fix that scenario. It’s just going to enable toxic behavior.

A parser won’t teach you how to play better, and I’m not sure why people think that the people who can’t figure out how to play their job, would somehow be able to figure out how to use the data to improve the job they can’t figure out.

I don’t buy into the theory that people don’t want to learn to play optimally, I think a lot of it has to do with the approach people take with them.

[Ariel_Valmont]

Sure it's not rocket science but if something takes time, practice and research to be able to do well it's not exactly super easy. I never understood the argument that something isn't difficult because all you have to do is put effort in and work for it.

I’ll rephrase, because I understand what your saying here, I personally don’t find higher tier content (that which I’ve done) hard, and don’t feel that the things I haven’t done would be hard for me.

For me it is a matter of time. Personally I’d like to see duty finder used for higher tier content.
With some more robust filtering (expanding on what they have on the high end tab) to get people in the type of group they need. Most days Party Finder is a mess, and more of a hassle than it’s worth.

[Caurcas]

No one likes being stuck in a party with someone like your example, but an “official” parser isn’t going to fix that scenario. It’s just going to enable toxic behavior.

A parser won’t teach you how to play better, and I’m not sure why people think that the people who can’t figure out how to play their job, would somehow be able to figure out how to use the data to improve the job they can’t figure out.

I don’t buy into the theory that people don’t want to learn to play optimally, I think a lot of it has to do with the approach people take with them.

Some people would want to learn to play when they learn they are sub par. Some don't. An official parser would help both. The first to learn that they need work and need to seek out advice, the other to show who to kick from the party.

[Jengo_Gonar]

It is a tool that people that is obsessed with efficiency use to know who is exactly not doing something that they should be doing.
If used correctly, you can probably learn what other people is doing and improve your performance. But it is not mandatory or very useful if you don't know your job, though.