about the ToS and parsing

[TessaJalloh]

under the letter of the TOS they're bannable due to parders being third party applications.

However, as they're mostly benign and practically undetectable, the general spirit of the law is 'don't abuse others with them', and 'don't ask, don't tell'. Personally, i don't find parsers as useful as people like to make out, they're hard numbers sure, but you don't need those hard numbers if you know your team well enough. Help everyone improve together, instead of singling out those who didn't do quite as well and telling them exactly how bad they performed.

[AhoyCaptain]

i don't find parsers as useful as people like to make out, they're hard numbers sure, but you don't need those hard numbers if you know your team well enough. Help everyone improve together, instead of singling out those who didn't do quite as well and telling them exactly how bad they performed.

Just want to say that if you're parsing to improve, you aren't using it to get "the hard numbers and single out players". You are using it to find improvements in your rotation, places you can improve uptime on dots, amount of times you used certain skills, and places in the encounter where it might be better to use or hold different skills. The number just lets you know definitively whether you made the improvements you were aiming for.