Quote Originally Posted by Beardfist View Post
It is definitely not against the ToS. The line of the ToS that was quoted was referring to data mining, which has nothing at all to do with parsers. Parsers don't hook into anything, they just literally parse the text logs. If you would rather read the logs and do all the math yourself, then go for it, but just know that is exactly what parser does.
This is what I figured anyway. If you had a pen, paper, calculator, and a stopwatch, and could either write really, really fast or took the time after each fight to calculate Damage Dealt divided by Time of Fight in Seconds, you would get an average... your DPS.

FFXIV parsers aren't even fully accurate because the raw log misses important things about DoTs - like critical tics.