Absolute frustration at not being able to see my own DPS (ps4)

[Stupiduglytaru]

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I really wish people like yourself would stop speaking for people like myself. edit inc

I'm a PS4 player, when I first started this game I knew nothing of parsers. My first FC was pretty much a safezone free company, this is what I came to realise as I progressed further and further into the game. There were people there who were quite frankly terrible players, but everyone was clapped, cheered and told don't worry your get the hang of it!

While this is all nice, I soon realised if I ever wanted to venture into the world of primal extremes and coil I would have to go about this through the PF. As I practiced, I soon became aware of parsers. It was not till however during a T9 attempt to clear run that I witnessed someone use a parser to call someone a bad player, a fellow fc member. His exact words were, "you did 200dps that run, I really think you need to take a look at your rotation. That's very poor dps for a <insert ilevel brd>.

It was here, where I started asking for my dps each run and once I had finally got into final coil the fear set in.

I was very pre emptive to join clear parties after learning all the mechanics, and infact just beating the T10 for the first time didn't take that fear away. I was worried that if I joined a farm party my dps wouldn't be enough or acceptable to them, soo after a few days I just took the plunge and went in.

Each run, I would state I'm a PS4 player and I have no access to dps figures, if a PC would be so kind to either tell me after this run what I did or during that would be great. VIRTUALLY every run, another player would then reply with could I also know my dps too please?

Not once have I been abused by another player because of my dps, I still ask to this day.

I do have friends that I can use for finding my dps out on dummies but this isn't enough, I can't see my dps in a raid all I know is my dummy dps is pretty sweet.

The only way to beat the fear is to jump right in, there's a whole community out there that has no access to a parser at all (ps3, ps4) we can't just download something we rely on PC players to tell us how we are doing.

There are plenty of PC players who actively help out on rotations and teach players how to play a job.
If the console community had the same tools, we could do the same.