SE's most difinitive statement yet on parsers

[Tiggy]

You are without a doubt the least informed person I have ever talked to on any forum, ever. I actually use the parser because I love the math. The example you gave of tracking damage by throwing a dot on a level 49 is so unbelievably stupid on so many levels.

He ALWAYS trolls these topics. He doesn't do end game and he thinks he understands every single aspect of the game and that we simply don't get it. The worst part is when you prove him wrong he always twists it like "you guys just don't understand what I'm saying." He's frustrating beyond belief and you will never get through to him.

Don't feed the troll. Just ignore him.

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.

I can completely agree with this. Parsers create a system where the limit is known and therefore the limits must constantly be pushed harder and harder creating a feedback loop. The problem is Pandora's box has already been opened with third party apps, and the only hope we have of equalizing the playing field is to have some type of in game system.