DPS meters and why they're necessary

[NintenPyjak64]

I don't mind a personal parser only seen by each player but then it'll still incite others to say "what's your DPS?" If you try to join say a SCoB Pug group who're formed mainly of an FC.

Let me ask you this one question: Let's say a party like that did show up, if you're confident with your numbers, then why not show them? To refuse will tell me that you probably know you're playing badly and don't want to improve.

Parsers are here for improvement. I used Recount in WoW countless times to see how I stand on my main and have only improved, even after I skipped to level 90 and became overwhelmed.

My final note: The most common theme I'm seeing in these entire forums is that parsers will make the community worse. How will a TOOL make the community worse? To blame a TOOL is like blaming a GUN for killing people. Guns don't kill people, the person USING the gun (for malicious intent) kills people. I'm all for adding parsers for self improvement, and if you see somebody being a D-bag about it, Report it and move on.

[Skyl1n3]

Let me ask you this one question: Let's say a party like that did show up, if you're confident with your numbers, then why not show them? To refuse will tell me that you probably know you're playing badly and don't want to improve.

I am confident with my DPS, I'm constantly topping my Raid groups because a couple of them have parsers and gives everyone in the party a read out at the end of how each person did sometimes, if their was one that DID stick out then at most we'd just talk about it and try to improve their performance.

As I said before, I'd want a training dummy at my FC's house to get your own DPS numbers from it and share them with my FC to see who's doing well to go on static Raids and whether or not some people can improve it.

Also anyone that keeps saying "if you don't want to show your numbers then you're obviously scared of showing how bad you are", is just an elitist viewpoint IMO.