Quote Originally Posted by Hash_Browns View Post
I'm going to suggest XIVAnalysis to you. It's a really good tool to tell you how to play more optimally. If you have ever uploaded a run, you can take the link from that run, select your character, and it will tell you the mistakes you made, broken combos, over-capping on job gauges, etc.

ACT also has settings to only target yourself if you are running it, so you don't really need to hide it. (although, it does have some glitches, sometimes anyone who heals will appear on your list with 0 DPS, since you aren't actively tracking them. Just keep it in mind that if you track only yourself, you need to make sure to have room to track others still, since others might appear.)

DPS isn't really the thing you should be monitoring. DPS loss is a direct result of mistakes, so you should be figuring out your mistakes, which is why I recommend XIVAnalysis.
XIVAnalysis is a good guideline but don't relay too much on it. There are times it flat out wrong happens a lot actually because it doesn't take in account somethings. There are times it said you clipped but you HAD to clip due to mechs, and some people think clipping is the end of the world when in some cases its a dps gain depending on the fight.
Cases with samurai, there are times you'll do yuki instead of gekko due to a certain part of mech but xiv will say you were wrong when players proved that doing X thing was a gain.