This game needs better DPS feedback

[Derio]

I must have all the best of luck because 9/10 times I use the DF, I always get above average- excellent dps paired with me.

[Welsper59]

I must have all the best of luck because 9/10 times I use the DF, I always get above average- excellent dps paired with me.

It's quite probable that a hefty amount of the people who complain about low DPS (or any random player in general) are the sorts who are either not looking at the situation the player is in, they're putting themselves in a situation that would have fresh players, or their idea of good DPS is ridiculous. I can think of several people I've met in this game that fit the bill of one or more of those. I'm talking the sort of people that go into Sastasha normal and expect a PLD to hold threat against DPS that go all out. Or perhaps people that are in full highest tier tome gear complaining after seeing a DPS do low numbers but not noticing the person is in i150 or so gear cuz yah know... Aetherochemical Research Facility.

[Kaurie]

It's quite probable that a hefty amount of the people who complain about low DPS (or any random player in general) are the sorts who are either not looking at the situation the player is in, they're putting themselves in a situation that would have fresh players, or their idea of good DPS is ridiculous. I can think of several people I've met in this game that fit the bill of one or more of those. I'm talking the sort of people that go into Sastasha normal and expect a PLD to hold threat against DPS that go all out. Or perhaps people that are in full highest tier tome gear complaining after seeing a DPS do low numbers but not noticing the person is in i150 or so gear cuz yah know... Aetherochemical Research Facility.

Hmm, well it's more that in expert roulette DPS are pulling significantly less than what they are able to. The highest random person's overall DPS for the entire run I have seen is 1100. The highest DPS of my friends I have seen is 1300. The DPS that I bring on my alternate SMN (ilvl 214) is 1500. The median DPS I see is 800. I've seen maybe ~4 people ever above 1000, and have actually seen more DPS pull less than 750.

That means, on my alternate in less than max gear, I pull 187.5% of the median DPS. The highest DPS I have seen achieved 73% of my damage output. I have seen more people who do less than half of my DPS than I have seen do above 66%.

Now, I don't expect everyone to pull 1500+ DPS in expert roulette, I feel that I do put in more effort than most people in to playing my class well. That said, I feel that at the very least people should be pulling 1200+ as a median, with the lower end near 1000.

Using this information, I am not picking on individuals who may have extraneous circumstances. These are an average, median and max of all DPS that I have run into (mostly went on my SCH so 2 dps per run) since 3.2 launched in February (2 months ago).

[Nicobo]

I must have all the best of luck because 9/10 times I use the DF, I always get above average- excellent dps paired with me.

I must have the worst of luck because 9/10 times I was the much better dps and I am not above average - excellent dps. ^^;