What is parsing?

[Naaura]

Hello i hear this a lot.

Is this something related to addons?

But arent addons against ToS? I am so confused.

[Ranaku]

Yeah it's related to a damage meter addon with which you can see the damage/heal you do and your group does. Speaking about it ingame and harassing people with it is a bannable offense not to mention that it is in general against the ToS. But as usual if you don't speak about it not much will happen but SE is enforcing their rules if people get reported for posting the numbers in group chat etc, even if a person asked you about it and you posted them in their request you most likely can get banned cause of this.

[Naaura]

Yeah it's related to a damage meter addon with which you can see the damage/heal you do and your group does. Speaking about it ingame and harassing people with it is a bannable offense not to mention that it is in general against the ToS. But as usual if you don't speak about it not much will happen but SE is enforcing their rules if people get reported for posting the numbers in group chat etc, even if a person asked you about it and you posted them in their request you most likely can get banned cause of this.

Ok ty ! <3 this seems make a lot of sense.

I noticed a lot of streamers use it too? Whats the general view about it? Isnt it like against ToS still?

[Imora]

Yeah it's related to a damage meter addon with which you can see the damage/heal you do and your group does. Speaking about it ingame and harassing people with it is a bannable offense not to mention that it is in general against the ToS. But as usual if you don't speak about it not much will happen but SE is enforcing their rules if people get reported for posting the numbers in group chat etc, even if a person asked you about it and you posted them in their request you most likely can get banned cause of this.

Calling it an addon is disingenous.

It's a third party program that sniffs out the packets the game sends and receives, then parses the combat data.

That's all it does. Parse the combat log by packet sniffing.

[Drkdays]

Unimportant in 14. Absolutely all important in WoW.

[Shurrikhan]

Unimportant in 14. Absolutely all important in WoW.

Much like competence or self-improvement.

[Xuled]

Unimportant in 14. Absolutely all important in WoW.

Factually untrue. Even if you disagree with it don’t downplay the legitimate (read: not harassing) usages.

[Ranaku]

It is against the ToS like any third party software but SE will probably never use anti cheat software etc. that searches through your programs, the reason why they are against this i don't know but FFXIV has no anti cheat software, that's why some bots use/used teleport hacks in the past and why stuff like mods/shaders/damage meters can't be detected by the game since it's client side software and the game doesn't read what you have open and what else interacts with the game as long as it doesn't affect data that is send back to the server. Still ofc it is against the ToS and SE gladly enforces these rules when someone reports you.

[Naaura]

It is against the ToS like any third party software but SE will probably never use anti cheat software etc. that searches through your programs, the reason why they are against this i don't know but FFXIV has no anti cheat software, that's why some bots use/used teleport hacks in the past and why stuff like mods/shaders/damage meters can't be detected by the game since it's client side software and the game doesn't read what you have open and what else interacts with the game as long as it doesn't affect data that is send back to the server. Still ofc it is against the ToS and SE gladly enforces these rules when someone reports you.

Ok thank you This clears a lot of questions! I am glad SE enforces the rules! This gives me a lot of safety.

[Ariel_Valmont]

It’s for people who need a numerical read out, to tell them they are playing the game good or bad.

Don’t join the cult, it will just suck the joy out of you.