Please add damage meters, Yoshi P.

[Bobby66]

No.
No they do not lmao. Let me regale you with a fun story.

Back in my first raid tier (Alexander Creator), Xenosys Vex joined my PF to 'help', unannounced. At the time, I had no idea who he was, but my good MCH friend that I was progging with got super excited and explained to me who he was. A few pulls later, my friend excitedly tuned into the stream and I heard his excitement turn to horror as he realized he tuned in right as Xenosys Vex was publicly mocking him with his entire chat joining in, specifically because his DPS appeared low. That friend ended up feeling so gutted that he quit raiding for a long time after that experience, and then eventually stopped playing the game altogether.

My response to that person wasn't even specifically about meters. It was addressing the absolutely deranged notion that, quote, "The *only* toxicity in this game comes from toxic casuals".

That said, anyone who has spent 5 minutes in highend communities knows exactly how much toxicity there is around parsing. It's the most common 'competitive' activity that the general raiding population participates in, and when something is competitive, there's always toxicity. I'm forced to believe anyone in this thread pretending it isn't a thing is being willfully disingenuous.

As I said calling out someone for poor play is not toxic, sounds like your friend was playing poorly. So where exactly is the problem? Let us also be fair, Xeno is known to be harsh, so what exactly was your friend expecting? No way he was a fan of them and never seen him be harsh to others. Problem is your friend probably thought he was good because no one said anything to him because in FFXIV any mention of performance allegedly can get you reported. So people do not say a thing then go on for a time thinking they are doing fine because they are able to clear the content. Sounds like Xeno gave your friend a realty check.

Offense is taken not given, a person only has control over their own actions.