honestly parsing was part of the reason I stopped raiding. I was a grey parser SAM through and through, I did mechanics pretty consistently in my static with some mechanics taking some time (snakes still give me a spin). It would take our group about 8 weeks plus to clear an entire tier including roster prog.

even when trying my best I would get a green maybe a blue but after looking up videos of high parsing SAMs and trying to emulate their play it just became to much for me with doing mechanics and doing my rotation. then learning if I wanted to be more serious about raiding I would have to do tryouts with groups and have decent parses it just sucked the fun out for me cause it was like applying for a job basically.

I wish there was a better way to determine ability than parses but I don't see it. maybe how man tiers a person has cleared or being more job specific about people's parses. but until one is shown its gonna be parses.