Quote Originally Posted by Aiselia View Post
Whereas the video contradicts my experience, where I'd been kicked from a group in the lowest tier of heroics because I wasn't doing comparable damage to the raid-geared rest of the group while on a character that literally had just hit cap and was doing the lowest tier of heroics BECAUSE I needed to start gearing up.
I've heard of such incidents. I've heard of similar ones here in FFXIV already happening. A question about your incident in WoW: How often did it happen before you got properly geared? I ask, because I've gotten kicked exactly once as a healer from a Heroic dungeon (an early, awful grimrail run before people knew how to bait the slag properly), that I can remember (I wasn't awful, but I wasn't great either), and I did a few runs as WW DPS as well (which I was absolute garbage as), and while I think I did get called out on it once, I never got kicked.

In what situations would being able to see someone's DPS mid-fight make a difference between winning and losing? You can't really do much about it until the fight's over for better or worse.
Being able to see DPS during the fight isn't the benefit. The benefit is to the parser itself, which can show better data if it has access to all the data from the fight (which it won't have if only the final parse data is sent with the share). The easiest way to implement that is to make it so that sharing shows your current parse to those who you shared it with, and enables those people you shared with to continue to parse your info for the remainder of the duty. Having the parser be party-wide instead of personal would also allow SE to give it to PC/PS4 users and not PS3 users with little downside (PS3 users could still be parsed by PS4 and PC users), where with only Personal parsers (if they're implemented but not for PS3) would leave PS3 users hanging unless they got a simple parse share dialog. All of this assumes SE does the right thing and implements a full parser and not just a basic "end-of-fight" parser. If the latter is all that we get, I doubt people who use external parsers will stop doing so.

--Erim Nelhah