I don't like the idea of parsers. I don't like the idea of ANY third party tools. Because they can and will be abused. People will say they won't, or say it's 'limited' or 'extreme' cases. But at the end of the day that's exactly what it boils down to be. Parsers are a judgement tool, nothing more. If you use the judgement to improve yourself, then you don't need the tool because you can eyeball it (pen & paper / excel etc etc) without having to rely on something else to do the work for you. If you use it on others then all are you doing is looking for flaws in people, and with the quality of the community we have here (hey look, hunts are a GREAT example of THAT....) it will end up in the crappiest place possible.

Not to mention the fact of "Oh, well I have this parser installed, I might as well use mod X or Y as well to make things easier." which just results further and further into cheating mindset because "oh it's not effecting others."

I will firmly hate 3rd Party Tools.


And before anyone says 'stop being bad'. I was apparently parsed and told how I did by a bard in DR the other day and was complimented. I felt rather uncomfortable with that information and warned them not to do it again, especially with me because I will report for that kind of stuff.