They Should Add An Official Damage Meter With One Condition

[Rolder50]

Yet you can try different things and observe: Over repeated tests, did the numbers go up?

Not to mention that the most immediate per-second meter itself is only a small part of the available system. Take WoW's typical parsers as example.

• Want to track when and for how long you dropped a buff via a timeline and event chart? You can do that.
• Want to compare your action timeline against another of your own logs, or perhaps even compare each against their respective throughputs? You can do that.
• Want to find the most salient points of difference between how you played and a fellow player in your party of the same spec played? You can do that, too.

They have rather immense potential as learning tools.

Fun fact, you can do this with FF14 parsers as well, you just have to upload the log to a website and it can chart all this out.

[Shurrikhan]

Fun fact, you can do this with FF14 parsers as well, you just have to upload the log to a website and it can chart all this out.

Aye, I just like Detail's convenience for being able to do that in-game, no upload necessary. (Though, one would still need the upload for, say, running a 2D replay of the fight, as offered on Warcraftlogs, or for running their quick analyses, so it's still plenty worth uploading from time to time there.)