Ask Your Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part IX!

[Gezzer]

When will you be adding live DPS meter?
Currently we have some programs that can track player's DPS, but they aren't very accurate yet, so we can't objectively measure our strength and skill.

I've never been a big fan of DPS meters, or meters of any kind, because they don't show the whole picture. Say I'm a Summoner if I ever use any heals it penalizes that, but a few extra heals could be the difference between a wipe and killing the boss. Or say a support/damage class, the same thing might happen. Why use support or debuffs spells when it penalizes your DPS rank? When you start relying on those meters too much you end up with classes like WoW currently has, no hybrids of any kind just the holy trinity of tank, heal, and DPS, and it makes for boring classes IMHO. Another problem I've seen with relying heavily on meters is the old one of a Rogue exclaiming he does 15K crits, but when the tank keeps telling him he's pulling aggro he blames the tank because he can't hold the aggro, which he could easily do if the Rogue wasn't criting 15K all the time.

I guess my opinion about meters is that it makes personal performance more important than team performance, which though not always a bad thing can be very frustrating and skew the development of the game's classes to single purpose classes.