SE's most difinitive statement yet on parsers

[Kaethra]

No a stop watch is an essential part of an athlete's program a parser is more of a quality of life thing. Nothing wrong with parsers at all but don't come on here selling the idea they are super essential to playing this game.

I'd love for you to quote where I said they were essential. I can quote several times in the thread where I've stated I haven't even used one, much less downloaded one for FFXIV. In fact the analogies I was using a stopwatch for was for a PT test. They weren't essential there either, but they were pretty damn helpful.

For those demonising parsers as the root of all evil...

As I said before, they are just bluffing and probably boarderline trolling (at worst) or trying to get attention (at best) at this point. I just linked three threads showing parser information, a literally gold mine of 'offenders' for them to report. And they aren't reporting them. So... make your judgement on their true intentions based on that.

[Elven]

I'd love for you to quote where I said they were essential. I can quote several times in the thread where I've stated I haven't even used one, much less downloaded one for FFXIV. In fact the analogies I was using a stopwatch for was for a PT test. They weren't essential there either, but they were pretty damn helpful.

It doesn't matter how you meant it my point still stands a stop watch is essential a parser is not wether you personally use them or not.