What do you want to see on Astrologian?

[Raminax]

There are various damage meters (most reliable one I know of is ACT - Advanced Combat Tracker) for XIV that will happily show you results without having to resort to patience, an abacus and a stopwatch. Damage dealt, health restored, how much a certain skill contributed to your output, you can see it all.

That said, it's... controversial. You won't get punished for just using it, but I've heard that people tend to get bans if they use the results to harass (what constitutes harassment is a player judgment, I suppose) players.

[LycorisSelunis]

There are various damage meters (most reliable one I know of is ACT - Advanced Combat Tracker) for XIV that will happily show you results without having to resort to patience, an abacus and a stopwatch. Damage dealt, health restored, how much a certain skill contributed to your output, you can see it all.

That said, it's... controversial. You won't get punished for just using it, but I've heard that people tend to get bans if they use the results to harass (what constitutes harassment is a player judgment, I suppose) players.

Frankly I am glad that meters are not a huge thing in this game. WoW epeens ruined this nonsense for me, dps and healing both. Actually, healing meters more than dps because you cannot truly judge performance that way- how much you heal depends on how well the rest of your team does at avoiding damage. Flat numbers are less likely to get you through an encounter than proper utility, which is difficult to quantify. About the only thing I do like about meters is seeing things like, oh this tank never used his mitigation cds, dps never popped cds and stood in this mechanic every time, that whm only cast regen single target and no other spell when everyone was getting aoe'd to death.

I guess what I mean is that these tools ahve a place, but the average player misuses the tool. But even so anything that lets you pick apart performance can be used to harass by 'elitists', and probably do more herm than good overall.

[Cynfael]

I guess what I mean is that these tools ahve a place, but the average player misuses the tool. But even so anything that lets you pick apart performance can be used to harass by 'elitists', and probably do more herm than good overall.

This argument pretty much debunks itself, though; these "elitists" that seem to have the more delicate flowers of our forum community living in perpetual fear of a harshly worded critique from a random stranger couldn't be bothered to actually share this information, whether constructively or abusively.

Also, most people playing on PC who are really interested in the meta game of maximizing DPS are already parsing themselves. The pro-parser threads are mostly for the benefit of console players and to help raise awareness of the expectation of DPS to actually try to do their jobs well, which exists regardless of whether or not the metrics are readily visible to the players.