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

[KaitlanKela]

A parser where only you can see your numbers. Make asking for other people's numbers a punishable offense under harassment.

The parser is connected to a lodestone "app" similar to what's going right now for PVP rankings. However, the app only displays the "average" and "high" numbers for each class for each boss encounter. Say I'm a DRG playing T5, and my personal parser gives me 500, but then I go online and I see that the average is 900 and the high is 1250 for a DRG on this fight (just throwing example numbers out). Time to go to the internet for some help. But if my number's 1000, I'm doing better than average and I probably am contributing to the group in a positive way.

This gives the benefit of benchmarks for reasonable performance for people who want to self-improve, but limits how transparent your numbers are. IMO, this solve's OP's frustration with minimal opportunity for abuse. I think it's a good compromise and I'm kind of bumping this because I would seriously like to know if anyone sees any flaws with this? It kinda got buried without any feedback.

I do want to make the point that I feel like it's silly for people to not want to introduce helpful tools into the game because it may make people 'toxic'. People are already toxic and people will always be toxic. I don't think that's a good reason to deprive the community of useful content. Personally, I always advocate for communication, fairness, and general decency on the internet, but I'm realist and I don't expect to see it all the time. I think if more people took that kind of mentality a lot of the anguish here could be avoided.