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

[Vire]

What im saying is dps checks where in the second raid released for the game and people were using them even back then world first clears or not. I was just talking about the last two raids because I have first hand experiences that showed without a shadow of a doubt everyone was using them. That doesn't mean people were not using them before. To talk about vanilla raiding and say things like world first clears are a tiny minority is weird because 40 man raiding intrinsically was hardcore. Anyone who was going through the effort to organize 40 people at the time where already the 1% of the game. It wasn't till TBC and Wrath really where raiding became accessible to most players so I really don't agree that DPS parsing wasn't a big deal in vanilla as only the most hard core elite players where doing raiding in the first place. I am not talking about pugging MC 2 months before TBC came out either.

edited for clarity