Quote Originally Posted by Keldion View Post

An uncomfortable truth, technically correct.

I hold the following opinion on this context of cheating - if I act like a turd and raise a stink by flagrantly displaying parses or 3rd party tools, and/or disrupting the experience of others, I deserve to be flushed.
Exactly. I don't care if people are using these things until they use it to disrupt my enjoyment of the game.
- Cheating competitive portions of the game (Eg week 1 clears, savage/extreme/ultimate raids)
- Using it to denigrate other players, either online or offline
- Taking a cavalier attitude toward TOS violations


Quote Originally Posted by Somnolence View Post
It is possible to copy paste the output of battle log to another program, which would be 100% legal.
Nobody is doing that, and you're being dishonest suggesting it. How that third party tool works is by hacking the game client to read the memory for "accurate" numbers. It's not different from any other cheat tool.

The game DOES have a combat log, but that tool is not reading it.

And it can' t because that would require data mining the game to understand the log format, also a TOS violation.

Clearly SE COULD let players parse the combat log if they would release a document on how to read it. But I don't see that forthcoming any more than any other integration.