In competition with myself: a request for PERSONAL parsers

[RichardButte]

Personal parsers would be useless

People keep saying this with absolutely no basis behind it.

No, personal parsers aren't going to make DPS "accountable", but since SE seems to be mortified of doing that (despite it working in every other MMO I've ever played without turning the community into a toxic mess...), a personal parser that would at the very least allow me to see deviations in my DPS that I could then compare to my usual numbers, and that ALONE would give me a basis of comparison to say, "Hmm, something I'm doing is making it better/worse".

Tanks know they're doing better when they take less damage and maintain constant aggro. Healers know they're doing better when they keep everyone alive and topped off more reliably.

DPS are just fumbling around blind and clueless by comparison, and personal parsers would very MUCH solve that issue.

There are no in-game tools to allow a DPS to know how they're doing from pull to pull, and there are no tools WHATSOEVER for a DPS playing on PS4 to know how they're doing.

Again, tanks and healers have health bars and aggro meters. DPS have NOTHING.

[Nora_of_Mira]

a personal parser that would at the very least allow me to see deviations in my DPS that I could then compare to my usual numbers, and that ALONE would give me a basis of comparison to say, "Hmm, something I'm doing is making it better/worse".

DPS are just fumbling around blind and clueless by comparison, and personal parsers would very MUCH solve that issue.

There are no in-game tools to allow a DPS to know how they're doing from pull to pull, and there are no tools WHATSOEVER for a DPS playing on PS4 to know how they're doing.

DPS have NOTHING.

but DOES the data need to be that granular for you to see progress? I know it's a meme at this point to mention the SSS, but that allows all DPS to know how they're doing gear+rotation wise. And I understand our numbers are lower in the actual trial due to downtime but I dont feel blind and clueless about it. I get it's useful, dont get me wrong, but I don't think we're nearly as uninformed as people think.