Thank you Yoshi for your stance on DPS meters

[Wanzer]

You can already do something to a degree by using a calculator (whether online like the the Stone Sea Sky one) and using one of those dummies with Stone Sea Sky.

It's just a bit of algebra if done manually

But people want to immediately dismiss even using said tool as at least some basic way to get some feedback of improvement.

I'm NOT saying it wouldn't be nice to have one in game like ACT. I'm simply saying there ARE tools you can use to get a rough idea. It's not just about beating said dummy, if you know the amount of time you're allotted to do it, when you beat it in how much time, or didn't beat it and what percentage you were at from that time frame.

It doesn't really help to find our flaws though. They are the tools I'm using usually since I'm not on PC, as you said it helps to give a rough idea of where we are at, but both aren't able to give us any answer to more specific questions. Yeah, it's just for a rough idea at the end, but that rough idea doesn't give us any accurate information to improve ourselves, especially since they don't point directly to our issues, and our issues can be anything. Sure, rotations are simple, it's mostly some basic logic and math, but sometimes there is still a bit more to it.

And the struggle... Yeah, sure, we can go deeper, taking notes of everything we are doing, but the time we would put just to find one issue wouldn't be a two minutes affair; especially if we have to try different things to compare our different results : and that would also mean kinda knowing what our issues are to begin with, and sometimes it's just not that obvious. A simple "yeah, you beat it"/"nope, you failed" isn't really what could help us to improve, same goes for knowing our DPS via the Stone Sea Sky calculator. It's still a good start to gauge where we are at, but it can't really lead us to improvements since we need to know what are our issues to be able to work on them. You can beat the dummy, however it doesn't tell you if you can do better or not. When I was hiting that goddamn 0.3 seconds left, of course I knew something was fishy, but the game itself just tells me "yay, you did it!" when I genuinely want to know "how I did it ?"

So yeah, there is, since years now, the beginning of something on the game itself, that never evolved, but that something is far from enough. Especially for a game that throws some DPS checks at us. So I really find it hard to be satisfied with the current situation.