Would you be opposed to SE implementing a program to scan for addons/parsers?

[HikariKurosawa]

What you are doing here, essentially, is arbitrarily accusing every world first, and indeed every raider to have ever completed Ultimates, of "cheating" without having any way to prove it. Stripping away those weapons without proof is a surefire way to kill what few Ultimate teams there are out there. Besides, even if they are utilizing third-party tools, exactly how does this make their achievements unfair if darned near everyone else in the raiding community is also using or benefitting from them?

What you are failing to consider is that players rely on tools like ACT telling them their numbers so they can determine the correct way to play and gear their jobs. At present, endgame content is tuned in such a way that not having access to this information would in fact make it virtually, if not impossible to complete. Even players that do not themselves run ACT are almost always grouped with people that do, and thus they are able to see their numbers when they get uploaded to FFlogs. The theorycrafters that provide us with so much information about rotations and stat weights are also highly reliant on tools like ACT.

Additionally, I would note that all player data gathered by ACT is already available via combat log if you want to spend twelve years sorting it out and doing absurd amounts of math.

No, I am offering a solution to a broken world feel. Cheaters ruined prestige for everyone. It no longer exists for those who earned it without cheating. They would be able to earn it back after cheats were disabled, the cheaters would not.

You're confused.

[Zebraoracle]

No, I am offering a solution to a broken world feel. Cheaters ruined prestige for everyone. It no longer exists for those who earned it without cheating. They would be able to earn it back after cheats were disabled, the cheaters would not.

You're confused.

I promise you this is an entirely made up problem that you came up with yourself. I don't give two flying craps about the prestige of clearing Ultimates, I did it for the fun of it and the feeling of accomplishment. If you care so much about "prestige", why the hell are you playing an MMO that is already looked down upon by a LARGE portion of the gaming community?

Your posts reek of "FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS" and I freaking hate using that phrase.