Would you like an in-game parser?

[Kezy_Kaatapoh]

Forgive me when I laugh. Do you even know what kinds of things you can do with the data from a parser?

Yes. I'm fully aware of what a parser can and cannot do. All of those things you mentioned though don't involve information that you can't reasonably get otherwise, they just rearrange it or make it more prevalent. I can learn what a boss does, what the best CDs are to use at a given point in time, which CDs are available, which procs are up, etc. without the use of 3rd party tool. Those provide an edge, yes, but they just mean you have to spend less time working on your play.

A DPS meter, however, I cannot reasonably go into my battle log after every single pull and check what my DPS was. That's ridiculous, and that easily puts it far ahead of the other uses ACT provides. There's a reason we're talking about a DPS meter mainly here and not those other things.

So yes, I'd classify those things as preferential because all of the information it provides is readily available for me without the tool to know just as well as someone with the tool. What I can't do reasonably though is know my DPS, which makes it non preferential and more essential to high level play.

Again, just because there's always going to be inequality doesn't mean you don't try to close the gap. You seem to ignore that point.

Thanks for the condescending response though. You seem to be swell.