DPS

[NoctisUmbra]

Parsers are currently against TOS, SE isn't really enforcing it that much, but they have banned a few people because of their usage.. the people I know of though, posted the results in game.

So I would be careful about using them, it is a violation of the TOS, but like I said, it seems to be one that SE is letting slide somewhat.

I seem to recall parsers being endorsed by a community rep. Since parsers simply read the log in the game without actually interfering with the game code itself I'm fairly certain they are acceptable. Besides we're confirmed to be getting add-on support eventually in ARR, so kinda hard to ban parsers.

They are the only passable way of measuring DPS performance, and are incredibly accurate.

[kukurumei]

I seem to recall parsers being endorsed by a community rep. Since parsers simply read the log in the game without actually interfering with the game code itself I'm fairly certain they are acceptable. Besides we're confirmed to be getting add-on support eventually in ARR, so kinda hard to ban parsers.

They are the only passable way of measuring DPS performance, and are incredibly accurate.

Nope, confirmed by the Yoshi-P himself on camera. It's the first rule of parser club. If you're caught it's your own dang fault.

Parsers are not really that great because encounters are not about doing damage. It's about doing damage at the right time at the right moment. Though ACT is getting better at breaking down phases.

And of course you can cheat a ton. Like bringing in a drg if you want to make your brd look good, etc or have foe if you want your smn to look good, etc.

Simple fact is, eyeballing is usually decent enough for most encounters. There are a couple of areas you really need that dps check though (but more often then not, it's simply one person not attacking what they should)

One super dps does not make up for one dead member, 2 bad dps would still beat 1 super dps, etc. I think the only thing that really has people breaking their hearts is conflag/snakes, and that's because it's an i90 battle.

And that's a long way off for many people.