DPS Tool

[mythicrose]

official tool practically invites drama on something more or less intangible.

I'll disagree on this. If someone uses an unofficial parser to tell someone else their dps is "low", that person can counter them saying "my in game parser says i'm at Y dps yet you claim I'm doing X dps. How can you know? Kick me and you'll reported for harassment."

Regardless, parsers are already in use....and there are groups that expect dps classes to perform to a minimum treshold (especially for Coil 2). Players will always try to find a way to segregate perceived "bad dps" from good ones be it a parser (offical parser or not), gear level, achievements, etc.

[kukurumei]

I'll disagree on this. If someone uses an unofficial parser to tell someone else their dps is "low", that person can counter them saying "my in game parser says i'm at Y dps yet you claim I'm doing X dps. How can you know? Kick me and you'll reported for harassment."

Wouldn't they report you report them for the same harrassment since in that example you both participated in parsing? Double KO on that, A-Duh there?

Both keep quiet, both walk away.

If it was official then SE has to officially support it, and the GM has to officially varify the said support of it, leading to more GMs needed and more policy and more drama.

No matter how you spin it. Don't ask, Don't tell, makes people walk away without drama. There that wasn't so hard. Stop trying to justify harassment.

There seems to be this lack of maturity to "simply walking away" for some reason.

[mythicrose]

Wouldn't they report you report them for the same harrassment since in that example you both participated in parsing? Double KO on that, A-Duh there?

Both keep quiet, both walk away.

If it was official then SE has to officially support it, and the GM has to officially varify the said support of it, leading to more GMs needed and more policy and more drama.

No matter how you spin it. Don't ask, Don't tell, makes people walk away without drama. There that wasn't so hard. Stop trying to justify harassment.

Nothing can stop the "illegal" parser from reporting me. However, as they can't "know" what the official in-game parser said, no action would be taken against me in the example. No matter how you spin it, parsers are already here. People already judge based off them. An in-game parser will at least take away some of the power from the "must have XX dps" groups.