SE's most difinitive statement yet on parsers

[Shougun]

Never downed a raid boss pre guides have you?

This still has nothing to do with what I said though... I said parsers make your dps / healing / tanking more optimal, and as a team - this means you play better which leads to SE having to set a higher bar for players or suffer the possibility of making content too easy.

Has little to do with pre-guides, or saying players didn't work hard.


If someone had to meet an arbitrary level of 3 work points to make it feel really hard, and then suddenly they start to play better- it would make sense SE would have to set the bar to 4. In this case the player is still working hard, but the content is harder for those who didn't parse. The point isn't to say parsers are lazy or something weird, just that parsing creates the need for parsing and that has repercussions to other players.

To further that last sentence, I'm not sure SE can stop the "knowing" of classes over time but it does effect SE's expectation.. the solution to this situation? Not sure, just saying it does have consequences. I'd prefer they toss a parser in the game, strictly ban third party apps and up their detection abilities. If someone starts to harass you over the parser thats ok because harassment is a GM-able offence lol.

[Appleh4x]

This still has nothing to do with what I said though... I said parsers make your dps / healing / tanking more optimal, and as a team - this means you play better which leads to SE having to set a higher bar for players or suffer the possibility of making content too easy.

Has little to do with pre-guides, or saying players didn't work hard.


If someone had to meet an arbitrary level of 3 work points to make it feel really hard, and then suddenly they start to play better- it would make sense SE would have to set the bar to 4. In this case the player is still working hard, but the content is harder for those who didn't parse. The point isn't to say parsers are lazy or something weird, just that parsing creates the need for parsing and that has repercussions to other players.

To further that last sentence, I'm not sure SE can stop the "knowing" of classes over time but it does effect SE's expectation.. the solution to this situation? Not sure, just saying it does have consequences. I'd prefer they toss a parser in the game, strictly ban third party apps and up their detection abilities. If someone starts to harass you over the parser thats ok because harassment is a GM-able offence lol.

I agree about needing an in gamer parse we can see (they have it for PvP, why not PvE?) I would quit playing the game though if it started scanning my pc or local memory a la Blizzard. I'm not a big fan of Big Brother.

[Shougun]

I agree about needing an in gamer parse we can see (they have it for PvP, why not PvE?) I would quit playing the game though if it started scanning my pc or local memory a la Blizzard. I'm not a big fan of Big Brother.

I respect the desire for privacy, but I hope they then plan to either have this forever be an issue or to add proper addon support (to give fair avenue). I guess I wouldn't mind but then I have had WoW and Steam on my computer so.. too late for me ! lol