SE's most difinitive statement yet on parsers

[Roris]

Radar use could have been prevented if they kept yet another 1.0 feature they threw out that let you see mob dots on the mini map, including special icons for NMs, console limitations are a silly excuse for their removal because even XI lets you see them with both Wide Scan and the compass. DPS parsers just let you see numbers and are just e-peen in the end, they mentioned plans for integrating a DPS meter into dummies but like a lot of things it was just thrown out as a vague idea without any concrete info on when it'll be implemented.

Official mods might also add them alongside other features parsers include but mods were promised more than 2 years ago, since then they've just given excuses for their delay, PS3 release, addressing launch server issues, PS4 release, Chinese version release, etc.

[Barimu]

even XI l

I don't think Yoshi-P has ever played anything other than WoW and GW2 because he praises them both as the greatest mmos he has ever played, but if he played 11 then he'd realize 11 was better than both of them

[GilbertLapine]

I don't think Yoshi-P has ever played anything other than WoW and GW2 because he praises them both as the greatest mmos he has ever played, but if he played 11 then he'd realize 11 was better than both of them

He allegedly played Dark Age of Camelot, which was supposed to be the inspiration for front lines, but I don't see it.

[Edeline]

DPS parsers just let you see numbers and are just e-peen in the end, they mentioned plans for integrating a DPS meter into dummies but like a lot of things it was just thrown out as a vague idea without any concrete info on when it'll be implemented.

The thing is, parser program(s) are featuring this radar thing in their apps. While DPS parsers are just indeed e-peen after all and not harmful, people who use said parser also have access to this radar cheat. I don't think people would oppose to parsers as DPS meters only, but what I said previously.

[Roris]

The thing is, parser program(s) are featuring this radar thing in their apps. While DPS parsers are just indeed e-peen after all and not harmful, people who use said parser also have access to this radar cheat. I don't think people would oppose to parsers as DPS meters only, but what I said previously.

It's a side effect of the game still not offering official mod support, so the third party parse program and API was designed to allow these types of addons that could very well be implemented officially and in game if there was actual support for them, some like Radar add features that were once in the game like mobs and NMs appearing on the mini map in 1.0. Although even when official mod support is added, whenever that is, I'm sure third party apps would still be developed so there's not much that can be done about that, but most people would move on to use the official supported tools.