Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
When meters are (fully) allowed: "Your dps is low."

When meters are not (fully) allowed: "You might want to make sure you're keeping up Heavy and Chaos Thrust." (Hopefully after having actually noticing this, rather than just giving frequent reasons.)

The difference is that you don't just need to know that something is bad, but also the reasons (which could be given in alternative to 'my parser says so'), which are far more useful to the person doing poorly.
Honestly, without a detailed parser, it's hard to even know what someone is doing. Also, it's quite possible that folks don't know how to play whatever job Person X is playing very poorly. What kind of response people give has nothing to do with whether or not an in-game parser is available; it has to do with how nice they are or not.

If a DRG in my PT was doing poorly, I really wouldn't be able to say much besides "Your dps seems a bit low. You might want to google DRG rotations to see if there's one more effective than what you're currently doing."

It would be nice if everyone was super cool and wanted to do their best to help people get better or whatever, but a couple things:

1) If an in-game parser was always available, everyone would already be able to know well in advance of endgame how they are doing, and how they compare to other people. They should probably ask someone for advice if they think they are doing subpar. I think it's academically fascinating how many people have iLVL 90 or higher gear and do dps like they were iLVL 45.
2) It's honestly not everyone's job to teach everyone else how to be better. Sometimes you are just going to want to get something done. When you're in a Leviathan EX farm PT you set up in PF, you probably don't want to help that unskilled BLM struggle burger through the fight. You'd rather ask him to leave because he's doing less dps than the tank somehow.