Self-Parser

[Alakazam]

How can you know you are underperforming, if you have nobody to compare yourself to?




I would actually be extremely surprised, seeing that the amount of toxic players in this game is INCREDIBLY low, and most of them just throw a random tantrum and leave.

I don't know what you mean by no one to compare myself to, they aren't even allowed and people post numbers for DPS everywhere, so there SHOULD be plenty of ways. And maybe very few would go to that extreme, but I run into PLENTY of toxic attitude players, but maybe that's just my luck.

[sirDarts]

I don't know what you mean by no one to compare myself to, they aren't even allowed and people post numbers for DPS everywhere, so there SHOULD be plenty of ways.

It doesn't help to see that some random person on your job, in unknown gear, on a random encounter can hit XXXX DPS.
1) Gear does a lot.
2) Every encounter is different.
3) Other circumstances are different (what healer you have, what buffs/debuffs are used, who your tank is, how good your tank is, etc.)
4) It's not immediate feedback! When I go into a dungeon as DPS and see that the other DPS is doing more damage than I am, I will try harder! I want to be the higher one, I want to be main contribution to our damage, I want to make the enemies cry in terror! Just seeing that someone is able to push 1k DPS on a striking dummy, while I am at 850 DPS, doesn't help at all.

And maybe very few would go to that extreme, but I run into PLENTY of toxic attitude players, but maybe that's just my luck.

I'm fairly certain almost none would go to that extreme, and those few are toxic anyways, with or without a parser, and need to be dealt with in other ways, not prevent us from having nice things.
And yeah, it has to be your luck, in the last 3 months I have met one actual toxic player, ONE. Sure I met a few quitters, but nobody who would actually insult anyone for any reason. And I ran with DPS that were pushing less damage than the healer!