Quote Originally Posted by Rein_eon_Osborne View Post
An indicator would be nice. Something that shows the metric for the said player,.
I'm all for a metric but the issue is the metric many people want is actually useless..

Like a personal dps meter for example is a useless tool.

Why. Because while such a tool may indicate you are improving it cannot indicate where you are in terms of potential or where you should be..

To give an example. I use act mainly for curiosity and testing if this is better than that but I don't use it as a comparison tool because it doesn't work as such.

There are a couple of diamond weapon parses uploaded to fflogs for example that indicate my samurai is in the 39th percentile. But thats meaningless as well.

My samurai at that time was i513 with an I515 weapon.. this then doesn't mean 61% of samurai are better than me. Or anytbing like that. All it likely means is many of them have far better gear..

I might do the perfect rotation with the perfect uptime. But I'm never going to rack up the 80th or even 90th percentiles when my ilevel is much lower. So this then means that a parse where I did really well .had high uptime played my job optimally looks terrible because lol 39th percentile.

That exact same run might have been 90th percentile if my I level was higher. But the data doesn't show that information and people just assume everyone is full bi's on every job so the judgements they make are inaccurate.

If people want a metric that can actually be useful to them what they need really is a metric of say potency per second not damage per second. As this would scale much better and be much more usefull and comparable. It also provides a clearer indication of a theoretical potential because its a metric that doesn't really change much with gear. Shinten is 320 potency for example regardless of whether your using I300 or I530bis.

People need to understand what the information actually means before there's any chance of it being officially supported and shown to us.

And the problem is people just see a number and male a judgement without any understanding of what it means. The tools are fine its the way people use them that is the problem because most don't know what the information actually tells them. Nor do they understand that numbers without an accurate and comparable eference are meaningless...

You cant just go on fflogs for example and compare yourself to a random player that's the same job as you. If you don't know what gearbthey have or there ilevel or melds or anything then any comparison is useless.

You might be 1000 dps behind him and think you need to improve. But he might be 10 orn15nilevels ahead of you min which case your performing much better than he is..