I do not fall for schoolyard biff tannen gambits.
As I said, I know how the parsers work, and anyone who thinks they are going to goad me into trying SE's patience by explaining it on the official forum, really doesn't know me very well at all. I don't bluff. Suffice it to say anyone can decompile the parser, but I doubt the script kiddies who use the parser know what to look for. You're just blindly trusting that it's accurate, when the author has many times explained it is not for various reasons. You just don't want to hear it.
There is a difference between "Oh don't use third party tools because the violate the ToS", and "This tool uses pieces of the game client database obtained from the game client", therefor SE has even more grounds to shut it down since it redistributes SE's copyrighted content, and that goes to their legal department. The developer could easily produce a tool that doesn't include those files by having it extract the files at runtime, but no they instead included them inside the plugin.
You also need to realize that the game has it's own logs. Go look in C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\my games\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\FFXIV_CHRXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX\log and this is NOT what the parser is reading either.
Now kindly stop being foolish. If you don't want to hear that the NA raiders are the ones hurting their own cause, then nothing I say is going to change your mind. SE has no reason to listen to the NA raiders, or their meta's or their strategies because the NA raiders are the ones actively driving players away from the game by doing exactly what yoshi-p said not to do. So because of that the NA raiders perpetuate a toxic learning environment and are openly hostile to anyone who doesn't subscribe to their groupthink.
Instead of trying to lay in the sick burns at people who don't play the way you do, maybe, just maybe, stop being bad players yourselves. I say you don't need the tools, and several people come to the defense of the tools, missing the entire point that it's your reliance on a third party website processing of the parses that you have no idea how it calculates things that you're measuring yourself against. A group of bad script kiddies can taint all their parses to make themselves look 5% better so they could mock those beneath them with "git gud", and it would slip by because you don't know how it works, and there is no way to audit any parse against a known untainted baseline. You are beating your head into a concrete wall if your personal goal is to minmax dps just to get a score on a website that makes money off of you being obsessed. That is not healthy.



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