Add PvP Danage/Healing Scoreboard to PvE Bosses

Pretty straight forward, using the same software and programming they have clearly already made to track and display damage and healing statistics in PvP, just have this scoreboard display after PvE boss attempts and kills. This eliminates the need for parsers and should be very accurate while allowing people to see in concrete terms their performance. Will allow people to see themselves improve over time and evaluate how they compare to others.

Additional categories for damage recieved and threat generated would be nice, but nonessential.

Yeah this would be cool. However I can see this being annoying because people would do an attempt, see one or two people with less then ideal DPS and break groups up I'm sure. I think it would be a nice thing for higher caliber players and annoying for less experienced players who already have a tough time it seems.

We already see this happening via watching the threat meter. I really doubt it'll make more groups fail. If anything, if in a first run someone is low and sees it, might motivate them to step up.

If they can't hack it, well they don't deserve to be carried by people who don't know them. Of course friend/fc groups may choose to continue and carry the weakerembers anyway.

I don't care who are you, you are just numbers, consumables.

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Originally Posted by waca

I don't care who are you, you are just numbers, consumables.

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Better to be numbers than anchors.

as much as I would like this, please only have it as an option the party leader can set before entering an instance. I also do not want to see it in Duty Roulette either.

The reason I want it to be an option, some people might take offense to being compared to others in "farm" runs. Also certain classes excel over other classes in certain instances. These reasons can lead to poor play just to top the dmg chart. I hate it when people eat avoidable dmg just so they could squeeze in some extra damage.

Wait, if as a BLM, I know I can pop manaward, eat a plume, and get a bit more damage in, why shouldn't I? Not saying it's always the best choice, but calculated risks are a part of every fight. Sometimes I pay for my risks, but more often the boss does.

As a healer I would like an ingame parser.

I have no idea what's going on with the threat meter (unless I'm having threat trouble on a particualr encounter) since I target the tank and use <tt> macros.
I would like to see healing and overhealing to gain insight on my mana use.
I would like to see some way of tracking damage taken by source... so I can show a DPS who stands in plumes why I'm having a hard time keeping him alive. I would probably look pretty bad on this meter, which might motivate me to get better :p

They should just add an element to the HUD layout for us to put where ever we want, kind of like Recount from WoW.

New players to the genre aren't necessarily going to understand how to maximize their damage output. I understand that some people are going to be jerks to these players if we had a damage meter, but it is better that people can accurately see where the problem is in the group so they can help the player overcome that issue than to have to guess who is the issue based on player verbal feedback.

Protip, by the way: If the group is having issues and there are people saying "it could be that I'm not casting spell x or y fast enough" or similar statements, those people are usually playing correctly even if they are not completely confident in themselves. It's almost always the silent guy in the back who doesn't know any better or is just too afraid to say anything that has the lowest damage in the group.