DPS display could easily be solved with a system already in game.

[Asierid]

"If you want to be bad"... well, there's the first problem with your argument. You're assuming people want to be bad.

There's a big difference between 'optimal' DPS and enough DPS. If you can beat content with standard DPS, then no one has a right to criticize what you're doing. They're doing their job just fine and the content will be completed. People hate on parsers BECAUSE of reasons like this. People expect you to not just be good but literally the best. It becomes a contest, and eventually someone gets chosen over someone else because 'their DPS was higher'. I've seen it dozens of times and it gets old quick, so having an in-game parser only exaggerates these problems further.

There's a fine line, of course. The perfect example that happens today would be the guy that is clearly not playing his/her class right. You offer advice, they throw a fit.

Those people are the ones I am talking about. Those people are the ones against parsers for no reason other than to "play like they want" at the risk of holding everyone else back. I don't expect anyone to be the best, or even great. If you pull enough to carry your weight, great. Along that same line though, if you're the SMN spamming ruin and refusing to use DoTs, you can gladly leave or be removed.

The problem is, it happens quite often. Those who need help, don't want it. They are only holding everyone else back by doing so. The old "But then assholes will abuse it" comment is old and holds no merit anymore. People kick and refuse to take people just because of the Sol bonus. This is like refusing to go outside your home because "The assholes are out there, hisss". Not everyone expects everyone to be the best. But quite a few are content with being in that bottom-rung and will shun anyone who offers to help them. It is this whole "losers win trophys too!" line of thinking that drives communities downward.

But hey. You want to spam Rage of Halone because you feel like it. Whatever.