Confessions of a Toxic Elitist

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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.

Uh... what? As per usual, you speak of things you have precisely zero understanding of. ACT literally just reads the battle logs. Fights could be randomized a thousand different ways and provided numbers remain posted in chat, ACT will relay that information to the play. It essentially functions as a real-time calculator as players themselves could perform such a task themselves. In fact, some hardcore groups back in a ARR did as FFlogs didn't exist yet.

Kicking people based on parsers is no different than if I required everyone who joined my party to be a Miqo'te and kicked whoever wasn't. The party leader or majority vote make the rules. The only caveat SE imposes is we not publicly shame players by posting numbers.

Just like your White Mage nonsense months ago, you have no idea what you're talking about.

If they are dependent on using it to know anything about the state of the fight, then yes, they don't actually know how to play the game, they are simply reacting to the parser.

It sounds as if you're conflating parsing numbers and triggers. Only the latter calls out mechanics for you. Parsing numbers is simply what I said above and has no bearing whatsoever on mechanics.