In-Game Parser.

[lyndwyrm]

Genuinely interested if anyone can suggest any reasons why this set-up would not work?

I think the obvious possible flaw is people demanding it be set to public in DF and any/all content they do. The partner with this is some people would assume everyone with it private has lower DPS. Something that may mitigate that a little is to have it set to private every time you log on, so not all people would want to be bothered to change it to public every time they log on whether their DPS is above or below average.

I like this idea though, and the important thing here is that you can see if you are under-performing compared to at least anyone that has it set to public. That way, if you're running anything really, and you see someone with a DPS much higher than yours that isn't much or at all better geared, then you can ask yourself how you can improve or even ask someone else how to improve.

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I just wanted to throw this out there, but if the dev team can overcome whatever issues for add-ons they mentioned in this article, then I think you can be pretty sure some add-on will implement a parser.