SE's most difinitive statement yet on parsers

[Mcshiggs]

The difference is in definitions & platform. You're on a PC mousing over your abilities. I'm on a PS4 reading my ability descriptions from the character ability & traits menu. Also, aren't "tooltips" the green question mark that appears when new features are unlocked?

The green question marks is the active help system, a tooltip is the description of the spell/ability that pops up when you mouse over the icon, it provides the same information that the descriptions in the character menu. Actually the character menu gives a bit more information because it gives a description for the enkindle abilities of all the summons, and the icon for enkindle is the one you as the summoner use to command the pet to use it's ability, so the tool tip for enkindle just has a generic description about commanding your pet to use their ability. This however has nothing to do with parsing and what the whole thread is about, but I doubt the people arguing with you will care and will call you out on this, because it will shortly draw attention away from the fact that by using tools to parse they are cheating.

[Dwill]

The green question marks is the active help system, a tooltip is the description of the spell/ability that pops up when you mouse over the icon, it provides the same information that the descriptions in the character menu. Actually the character menu gives a bit more information because it gives a description for the enkindle abilities of all the summons, and the icon for enkindle is the one you as the summoner use to command the pet to use it's ability, so the tool tip for enkindle just has a generic description about commanding your pet to use their ability. This however has nothing to do with parsing and what the whole thread is about, but I doubt the people arguing with you will care and will call you out on this, because it will shortly draw attention away from the fact that by using tools to parse they are cheating.

He's arguing that one can min-max and play the job at its maximum efficiency by reading tooltip and not using a parser/relying on data that comes from one. How isn't that related to parsing ?

It's like experience, knowledge, skill, talent, common sense, experimentation, advice, seeing someone else rotation and judgement calls (mimicking what they are doing because they are obviously out performing you), and so on and so on are things that can't happen because with parsers you magically become #1 in seconds.

The mentality is truly baffling but it's their life style now. Thus they wont listen to us and they will over complicate and retort to the behavior they continue to emit because they don't want to have it any other way.

You've been asked plenty of time to back up your claims yet you continue on just rehashing the same statements without any form of proof whatsoever which invalidate whatever little credibility you might have had. You've proven times and times again your lack of knowledge on the matter so I don't know why it comes off as a surprise when people dismisses your claim and refuse to listen (rightfully so) to you.

I choose not to use parsers because they are pointless to me. I know what I'm doing and why I choose to do what I do.

There's many reason why people choose to and choose not to use a parser. With near a decade of seeing it on MMO's everyone has their own individual reasons. Yet categories and stereotypes form due to a group of player using it and behaving a certain way.

Yet the outcome is obvious across all MMO's that use such tools and that's dealing with discrimination as difficulty rises by people that become anti-social due to wanting to complete end-game and creating a stressful environment for themselves and others because they aren't clearing the content and getting their uber 1337 gear.

I find the irony quite hilarious: "We don't you to tell us how to play so we're going to fight too th and nail to prevent you to play how you want to play". You can't even prove when asked multiple times that people gets harassed in game consistently (according to you) yet we should believe you ?

You thinking you know what you're doing and you actually knowing what you're doing are two different things and the only way to actually valid this is by parsing.