Would you like an in-game parser?

[cammi]

I'm VERY new to this game and mmos in general. My first mmo was Tera - Don't give me that look - This is my second. I main monk and if you've ran with me ever I hope I never provided poor DPS. I think I do tho as I'm still learning and doing things to my rotation as we speak. I used to be against DPS meters in Tera as it's kindof toxic there. But here I'm in a different stance, I wouldn't mind at all for a DPS meter and wouldn't mind if my DPS was shown. I only want to improve and even in dungeons where I KNOW I sucked people have been really nice to me. I don't think I've ever been told I suck even when I know I did. I honestly think people who are saying no are jaded with most fanbases. This has been the most untoxic game I've EVER played in all my video game life. I think a DPS meter could do nothing but help everyone, look. If people are going to be toxic not having a DPS meter isn't going to stop them.


I see no harm in putting one in, it's just a tool. Assholes will be assholes with or without said tools honestly.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

I see no harm in putting one in, it's just a tool. Assholes will be assholes with or without said tools honestly.

You see no harm because this community is fairly pleasant. But you also saw how toxic Terra was. Assholes might be assholes with or without tools... but why give them tools they'd likely misuse to turn this pleasant community into yet another cesspool of toxicity? I'm not saying that would definitely happen, but why take the chance? There's already a 3rd party tool you can use to measure your own dps. Any of us can use that for personal improvement along with SSS and still maintain the nice community we have.

[Ashkendor]

You see no harm because this community is fairly pleasant. But you also saw how toxic Terra was. Assholes might be assholes with or without tools... but why give them tools they'd likely misuse to turn this pleasant community into yet another cesspool of toxicity? I'm not saying that would definitely happen, but why take the chance? There's already a 3rd party tool you can use to measure your own dps. Any of us can use that for personal improvement along with SSS and still maintain the nice community we have.

There's no empirical proof that adding a parser would suddenly turn the community into a toxic cesspool either. You probably get parsed every single day and don't even know it because most people that run parsers don't say a word about it ingame for fear of persecution. Adding an official parser wouldn't suddenly make berating someone about their numbers not qualify as harassment either, so people would still have recourse if someone was being a dick to them over parse numbers. FYI, PS3 and PS4 users cannot use the existing third party software, which is why people keep advocating for either 1) addon support or 2) an ingame parser. It's patently unfair to those users (and PS3 and PS4 actually make up a substantial portion of the playerbase, at least in my experience) to have to basically beg someone on a PC rig to parse them.