DPS display could easily be solved with a system already in game.

[DGladius]

SE designs all of the content with a specific dps output required to beat it. All they need is to have a popup when a duty is completed or fail telling you if you need improvement,are doing satisfactory, or you are exceeding expectations. Nobody else needs to see it

People need to see other people's dps so they will know if the dps is good enough and who isn't performing to standards. If the dps isn't good enough in a hard content we should know which dps is dragging the group down, and if those dps aren't able to improve upon it they should be replaced. The dps replaced should then go work on what they are doing wrong and look to improve themselves. There's no need to be soft on dps who didn't take their time to learn their class optimally when there are many resources online to learn rotations from.

[Rath]

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A lot of the posts about parsers claim they want them for personal improvement, this is something SE could potentially let us have. If you were at satisfactory, and got yourself to exceeds expectations, you are improving. You can change gear etc. and check the differences. I don't use parsers in this game (used them in FFXI), and I have nothing against them. I just don't think they are needed in this game. It is very obvious when someone is trying or not, and as long as they are trying I really don't mind carrying them. It is the dead guy on the floor that was bossing people around I have a problem with.

If you want to use them to check on other people, and potentially remove/exclude them from content, SE will not touch that because it excludes people. All the topics in the world will not get us that type of a DPS meter.

What they could do, is keep an average score (not show actual DPS) for each job in that duty, and let you see your own score compared to that score. Being job specific, you will not be able to use it to exclude specific jobs as they won't be ranked against each other. This may be something they wouldn't shy away from at least.

[kpxmanifesto]

What they could do, is keep an average score (not show actual DPS) for each job in that duty, and let you see your own score compared to that score. Being job specific, you will not be able to use it to exclude specific jobs as they won't be ranked against each other. This may be something they wouldn't shy away from at least.

I like this idea, but the mechanism for scoring seems arbitrary to me. What would this score calculator use to calculate the score other than using statistics that are already commonly used(total damage dealt, DPS, total healing dealt, HPS, etc.)?