Good Players will do research, test, read things up, improve etc regardless of using a parser. They do not need a parser to be a good player or get better, but does it help to actually see some accurate numbers? Yes it does and they can improve even more. Theorycrafters did their thing before the first parsers were out and here it is the same; They do not need a parser, but it does help to get more accurate calculations.


Parsers did exist in 1.0 and do since early 2.0. They do exist in many games, regardless of being allowed or not. People will use them regardless of being allowed or not. They allready use it in FFXIV and will keep using it and it does not matter if SE will allow it or it. If those people get caught using it, well shit happens and i guess that is all people want. Having a "legal" use of a parser, so they don't risk getting their account suspended. They allready judge people in Raids, Dungeons or w/e, so i don't really see how having it "legal" will change anything about the Community.

Depending on the way SE would allow it, also i doubt they will in the near future, it could be actually have an positive influence, since PS3/PS4 players can't use 3rd Party tools. Let aside for a second that 3rd Party tools are not allowed, how can PS Players improve their gameplay/dps/numbers w/e, if they can't use said tools due "PS limitations" ( sorry i had to )? Adding official support, or an official parser would help those people a lot. It should not be mandatory tho and i can think of a couple ways, which people would maybe like as well. Lets say adding some sort of "Trial Behest", where people have to reach a certain dps to progress further, or to get a certain Reward? I am pretty sure SE could pull something like that and also, they've showed their own parser in a couple official screenshots. They do look nifty.. xD

But yeah, a parser or dps-meter is not really a bad thing, the people using it the wrong way is the bad part about it.