Quote Originally Posted by kidalutz View Post
Parsers are Add Ons for a reason. You dont need them to play the game so that would fall under unimportant.
Number crunching in a game based wholly on math is kind of important. SE wants us to do the number crunching in 'our heads', sure, but that doesn't mean number crunching isn't important.

Every single encounter is literally designed around each team member contributing a certain amount of damage. In order to determine the optimal way to use abilities in order to meet those damage requirements we must perform mathematical comparisons.

I'm not going to get into a big debate on parsers vs no parsers but I will say that you just proved my actual point from that post, which is that this community has a strange sensitivity to a tool that does math in a math-based game.