Confessions of a Toxic Elitist

[Dualgunner]

That, and PS4 users can't use it. You can look at it either as using steroids, sure it may make your cyber muscles better, but it makes you subject to elitist roidrage.

But parsers aren't at all like using steroids, and in no way improve ones performance alone. They allow one access to the data needed to improve performance, sure, but that's like saying practicing at the batting cages is cheating baseball.

I'll reframe this for people who don't get it:

"If Square-Enix announced they would ban every single person who used a parser in 48 hours before the next content patch, would you try to call their bluff, or are you so dependent on parsing that you don't actually know how to play?"

I would. It'd be funny, actually, to watch SE annihilate their entire raiding population and then watch the game drown afterward.

Because people who start using unauthorized tools to improve their performance over others, sure sounds like cheating to me.

Except the parser itself doesn't improve one's performance. DRG A and DRG B, all else equal, would still perform the same even if DRG A had a parser and DRG B didn't.

EDIT: What follows is what I believe your argument to be: "Parsers improve performance, third party programs that improve performance are cheating, therefore parsers are cheating." It seems pretty sound, and agreeable entirely, but that relies on the first premise, "Parsers improve performance" to be true, which they do not inherently improve performance.