Parsing in Classic is a problem because it divides the community

[Shadows-grobbulus]

Our raid lead just calls for DPS to slow or stop if it looks like the heart is about to die.

[Mippic-old-blanchy]

Do not ever make me look at that person’s face ever again.

[Shadows-grobbulus]

What are you talking about?

[Mippic-old-blanchy]

The youtube vid

[Shadows-grobbulus]

Don’t click on the thread and video then.

[Gôvernator-emerald-dream]

It does when the players logs are NOT a reflection of their raid experience.

[Mippic-old-blanchy]

It’s your fault.

LOL
You’re insufferable too.

[Gôvernator-emerald-dream]

Why wouldnt you like Simon? He seems like a good guy. Sounds like a personal problem. Not the OP’s.

[Shadows-grobbulus]

You’re the one who chose to come into this thread. If you don’t like the topic, you are free to leave.

[Mippic-old-blanchy]

Here’s my opinion.
SWERVE
It’s actually a youtuber’s opinion.

[Shadows-grobbulus]

We can’t agree with a Youtuber?

[Mippic-old-blanchy]

If I wanted to interact with a youtuber, I’d go to youtube.

[Shadows-grobbulus]

Feel free to leave this thread then. I’m sure there are other threads more to your liking.

[Mippic-old-blanchy]

Leave this thread.

And go where? Youtube? Do they have forums there with text?

[Woopee-mankrik]

@Zoumz-zuljin

The thing is min/maxing is the way to get better at clearing content, and parsing is a mini-game around getting better at min/maxing. While you can prob clear content while being “sub-optimal” you definitely will struggle more than a guild that will push to min/max generally as more dps in all my years in wow has always made fights easier. Bosses just die quicker and you have to do less mechanics and healers have to conserve mana less so they can heal more, etc.

Min/maxing raid success and personal dps are not always the same thing. And sometimes they diverge radically.

[Shadows-grobbulus]

Or you could just go to another thread in the WotLK forums with a different topic.

[Gôvernator-emerald-dream]

Show me on the doll where Simon touched you.

[Mippic-old-blanchy]

Better to deal with it here before it spreads to other threads.

[Shadows-grobbulus]

Deal with what?

[Servechilled-pagle]

first of all , if your guildies have become your friends, no one will care about your parses, especially if you do mechanics , staying alive and clearing content. saying this , it’s not bad to have a metric to compare people. the main case is to have a good comparison tool. that’s were logs come in. my main issue is that wcl creators pick and choose what they want to implement in their system and what counts. also, logs might be punishing to new players because usually the “good” players log and compare results, tending to tip the parsing balance and new players have a big mountain to climb.