DPS meters and why they're necessary

[Hiroradius]

Because the stigma and usage of dps meters generally is, "Ooh look my numbers show I did 460 dps while the next best person only did 290 dps, and you bard did less then the tank" but mister 460 dps per second, did you survive the fight? did you dps the adds correctly? did you interupt like your suppose to? Doesn't matter, he did 460 dps, someone else should do those things because his numbers are too big

[Viridiana]

Because the stigma and usage of dps meters generally is, "Ooh look my numbers show I did 460 dps while the next best person only did 290 dps, and you bard did less then the tank" but mister 460 dps per second, did you survive the fight? did you dps the adds correctly? did you interupt like your suppose to? Doesn't matter, he did 460 dps, someone else should do those things because his numbers are too big

If the dead DD still managed 460 dps and the next best did 290, the person who did 290 really needs to step up his game, or get better gear, or something. For dps done to adds, there's an option to see incoming damage by source, so that's easy to figure out. Interrupts usually increase personal dps (for DD classes, anyway) at the expense of the party; if they're holding their interrupts like they should, they'll do less dps than they can.

[Dwill]

Because the stigma and usage of dps meters generally is, "Ooh look my numbers show I did 460 dps while the next best person only did 290 dps, and you bard did less then the tank" but mister 460 dps per second, did you survive the fight? did you dps the adds correctly? did you interupt like your suppose to? Doesn't matter, he did 460 dps, someone else should do those things because his numbers are too big

Talk about over exaggerating. Any content that's worthwhile to do is gonna be planned in advance on who does what, DPS is mostly irrelevant in that regard.You won't see anyone worth a damn trash talk on a bard that's lower than another bard if he had interrupt duty.

Meters have been used for forever in the MMO genre and their pros outweights their cons.