Quote Originally Posted by Lyrica_Ashtine View Post
Parsers make calculations too. Probably the same ones you have when using Rxcel. Excel isn't different from parsers is the point I'm making here. But using excel over parsers just makes it unnecessary hard and time consuming on whoever decides to use that. By that sense, if you really wanted to, you could harass others using excel. Simply takes longer and more effort.
The same ones? No. I'm calculating optimal stuff and the stuff above was calculating the advantages of a given buff to compare it against an assumption I made. All that a parser would have done for me in that situation is tabulate the data in exactly the same way I see it in the battle log. It would have been the same amount of work either way. Referring to what is essentially a calculator as a third-party program on the same level as something that scrapes data from the game and tabulates it for you is a bit of a stretch, but your point is valid, regardless.