At the core of what is expected of us as dps, is to pull as high dps as we can, and strive to improve on that dps. Playing in beta and for a few days now on live i have been unable to find any method of tracking damage output aside from the combat log and scrolling combat text mid fight, well these are all well and good i dont have the time to add up all those numbers to determine my dps. Ive also been told after inquiring in game that FFXIV does not support addons, although only one person bothered to reply to my question then in a whisper so maybe its false, part of why im here.

How do we as dps determine not only how well we are doing but if changes we are making are leading to improvement or not? Is there some kind of addon despite what i was told? do we use upload combat logs to 3rd party sites (similar to world of logs for WoW) to calculate our dps output? how is it that we acquire this information that is by nature critical to us as dps?