In Game DPS Meter

[Tiggy]

Well for one you don't need a DPS meter to know if someone has a sound rotation and that is all that matters that it is sound.

I have someone in my freecompany who has had players work with them repeatedly on rotations but they still end up doing 100-150dps less than the average of the other groups. I myself thought at one point that my BLM rotation was solid until I found out I was pulling 100 DPS lower than others. Turns out that my rotation was good but I wasnt doing little things like aetherial manipulation. Please stop trying to assume there is a one size fits all solution when you say you should just pay attention to the rotations. It is not that easy in all situations and isnt a universal easy way to fix this. I would appreciate if you would try to step out of your box for a second and even attempt to try and see it from a different point of view. If your stand still damage is low then no amount of teamwork or learning the fight better will suddenly make your DPS shoot up. It does not work that way.

I'm not even asking for a real parser here. Just SOME way to get ANY feedback from the game. As it stands the only feedback you can get is from a parser. Square is forcing people to use them by provided no legitimate ways to gauge yourself other than to carry an entire group into the fight while you fail. This makes it so that we are forced to practice these rotations in situations where we are dragging teammates down with our fail.

Yes, some people define fun as doing things however they feel, but some of us find fun in optimization our rotations so that we can tackle the hardest content. Your definition of fun isn't any better than my definition of fun and there is no reason that square can't meet us half way. So can we please get this conversation back to a place where are aren't debating the merits of parser and are instead trying to find a middle ground where something like this could exist?

Parsing is in the game. as long as you keep your mouth shut to personal use. No one is going to take it away.

It's a third party application which is blatantly against the ToS and also completely unusable by anyone on a ps3/pst4. What about those playstation players? Are they third class citizens? Do they not deserve some method that legit for them to use to determine their performance? Please stop using the existence of illegal parsers as some reason NOT to do anything for players who don't like breaking the ToS. It is not good justification. Is not a good alternative. Please try harder to contribute to a useful discussion about how we can solve this problem.


Any and all flat out denial of the idea is off topic. Please go debate it elsewhere. I really want this to stay on topic. If you don't think it will ever happen then please stop debating it. I don't care why you think they are bad. I only want people to come up with possible solutions. Just saying NO isn't getting us anywhere closer to anything at all.