Why not an ingame damage tracker?

[Odett]

Given the excessively large population of people playing this game who think high dps is more important than everything else, to include dodging, pulling the adds of the healer, etc I can say with absolute certainty that giving people an application that would allow them to see how much dps they're doing would only lead to even more problems with people choosing dps over survival.

Choosing DPS over survival would mean they would die, do 0 DPS and next-to-nothing DPS with 1 minute of weakness, and this would show with a DPS meter. I understand what your concern is, but that's not how a DPS meter works.

[Lyrro]

Choosing DPS over survival would mean they would die, do 0 DPS and next-to-nothing DPS with 1 minute of weakness, and this would show with a DPS meter. I understand what your concern is, but that's not how a DPS meter works.

That's why I called it an era, a period of time. I'm not saying that it would be a permanent deal, I'm simply pointing out that there would be a period of time in game where people are so focused on trying to be top dps that I will probably not be playing healer for anyone outside my fc unless I have to. They will learn, but if there's one thing you can count on with pugs in FXIV it's that they have a bad habit of being hard headed.