Parsing unfair but okay?

[Dracosavarian]

Unfortunately, this is impossible in this game—since it gives no indication of personal skill or personal damage dealt outside of sitting down with an Excel spreadsheet, a calculator, and a vast amount of time on one’s hands. If you ever wish to know your true performance, that is only possible with a parser. You are mistaken if you believe anything else in this game will inform you of whether or not you’re doing an adequate, below adequate, or above adequate job.

If SE were going to ban parser users, then they would. But they know that doing so kills their raid scene. So they allow it “unofficially”. You can wave around the ToS as much as you want, but it’s meaningless if it isn’t enforced.

I’m not sure why you think improvement without a parser is not possible, when it is. There are ways in game of measuring your general capabilities and dps against a boss without a parser. And from those, I have derived ways to improve.



As for the latter bit, we are repeating ourselves. And our opinions on that matter are clearly not going to change. That having been said, I wish you no ill will. I don’t care whether folks parse or not. That’s their business, and a risk they take unto themselves.

It is their choice.

It does not change the fact that it is against TOS.