jusr give us a personal dps tracker

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

There's a lot toxic about meters.

A DPS parser is fetching your chat log in raw data and compiling it in an excel sheet, just in real time. We could theoretically do this without parsers, it is just massively tedious.

Is quantified damage data toxic? I better hope not.

The problem isn't parsing per se, but the fact that we are treating parsing and damage info with such malice. The knowledge of how to properly analyse combat data is being pushed in obscurity in fear of public backlash and catching the ire of the FFXIV TOS - and because of this knowledge becoming obscure, what remains is people misunderstanding the data and proceeding to misuse it, intentionally or not.

Citing a friend who has raided cutting edge in WoW a long while ago, his raid group had dedicated logs analysts and if someone who was not part of the analysts decided to give his uneducated input to literally judge anyone, they got permanently benched - they were both wrong and out of place.

Once again - parsing isn't the issue, but the lack of knowledge of how to apply parsing correctly is, thanks to being pushed into obscurity, basically the equivalent to the Dark Age messing with technological advancement.