Confessions of a Toxic Elitist

[KisaiTenshi]

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

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.

That's just moving the goalposts. Let's try another thought experiment. What if SE started introducing RNG elements that break the parser? Now whatever BiS gear and optimal rotation you have no longer works 100% of the time, if at all.

The entire reason parsing works at all is because there is very little RNG involved in raiding. It's scripted to a point where if you know when something happens, you can be prepared. Now imagine going one step further, and the game remembers you. It somehow knows you're "better" and changes it's strategy knowing YOU are there. Now all these parser-based stats goes into the toilet because it's using the data against you. And SE has already indicated they log all the data needed to do this if they really wanted to, it was revealed as such during the Ungarmax post-mortem.

Edit: I have to say this a lot because people get really defensive. I do not personally care what you do with your own computer, but if you are using a parser to kick people from duties, you're the problem.