Quote Originally Posted by AbysmalDuck View Post
The only reason I've been watching this thread is because I do agree with people who say that parsing should not be used to gatekeep people. Unfortunately, as I've came back from my first time leaving the game, I've started to realize again the reasons I left and it is a little disappointing with how this community behaves.
I can agree on the fundamental but I disagree with you when it comes to specifics. To clarify, I agree, nobody should be gatekept in any game. However that being said, it's a team effort and depending on content it can actually necessitate people be able to pull their own weight. Savage specifically which a lot of people do Party Finder. Extremes early on too. They have DPS checks, people need to hit those. P4S unless you immensely outgear it is a pretty strict DPS check, enough so there's now a litany of strats that are focused solely on uptime. This isn't for parsing sake mostly, it's because your entire raid maintaining 48k dps across the raid especially during Pinax which is a huge uptime hit is pretty rough. One death for most pugs that aren't full of pentamelded crafting geared players who are very competent is enough to not meet that mark.