If SE could at least give players a way to see their own DPS numbers (like at a special training dummy) this would be of benefit to everyone who wished to maximize how effective their rotations are. I know I'm far from the first to suggest it, but there's been no explicable indication why SE won't give us something like this to help put those of us on PS4/3 on equal footing with PC players from the standpoint of being able to know how personally effective we are. When I started out I read all sorts of guides to be as effective as possible, much to my detriment it turned out as I was using those godawful DPS-killing bard macros recommended all over the place that use don't interweave GCD vs off GCD skills and add needless wait time all over the place. It made my DPS mediocre at end game, and the only advice I got was stuff I was already doing and I couldn't figure out why when others added 1+1 they got 2, and when I did I got 1.5, metaphorically speaking and it was frustrating as hell. Someone (to whom I'll always be grateful but will forever go unnamed) spent a good 45 min to an hour working on my rotation with me at training dummies in Gridania, and a lot of it came down to reeducation and me unlearning an approach I'd been conditioned to follow since I started and learning a brand new one. But without access to info re: DPS we wouldn't have known whether that made much of a difference or not. In fact, my DPS increased 30% when comparing the numbers from me going at the training dummies a few min under the old rotation, and doing it again after improvements were made. That's kind of a big deal. Sure, I mentioned at the start was that SE should at least let us see our own numbers, and then my example is from someone else helping me- but until then I had no way to gauge these numbers myself, and players willing to invest that much effort into helping others are not that easy to come by (and they can't help everybody). An in game DPS meter wouldn't have told me how to be more effective in the same sense as this other player, but being able to benchmark myself earlier on would have been nice.

And now that I think of it, why do we even have training dummies but no in game DPS meter, that's like having a car with no speedometer.