Quote Originally Posted by HikariKurosawa View Post
What I can say is that everyone above 90% parse is cheating, and probably even everyone above 80%.

Good luck competing with people who cheat when you don't. Parses are based on the community's performance, it's not some hypothetical. It is based on the state of reality. The reality is that cheating is widespread in this game, so much that people feel entitled to defend breaking ToS on the official forums openly.
I can guarantee you that's not true. You won't believe me and call me a cheater, ask for me to get banned because I "defend breaking ToS" or whatever, and then I'll ask you who is worse for the community : people that parse and feel good about themselves for being 80 or 90%+ without add-ons (and I do believe those are the majority, at least among those I know), or people that go witch-hunting based on nothing other than "this guy has a big dps".

Until 75%, it's skill but lack of gear and team synergy. From 75-90%, it's good gear and lack of team synergy, and above that, it's the combination of these. I personally haven't got any 99+%, but I do know raiders that have those and never used anything but parsers. But those are commited and try-harding people, and it's ok to not be one of those.