Quote Originally Posted by m3eansean View Post
You should be self-conscious. This is a group activity. IRL, if you are on a team or at work and see that you are clearly under-performing compared to your colleagues, most human beings would attempt to better themselves so they don't feel the shame of letting the group down. Why can't this aspect of social behavior be extended to a game where you must socialize to succeed?
You have a point, but in a group full of random people it really doesn't matter so long as things are progressing smoothly.

In a savage progression group, they do fulfill a purpose because if someone is dragging the group down it helps to know who. But if you're not doing progression, it shouldn't matter. (because if things are going sour outside of savage it's probably a problem with more than one person).

Personal parsers would be great so you can know how well that you alone are doing, without having to compare yourself to others. Then again, you're probably not going to perform to your maximum potential in any given fight due to how movement heavy they can be. People might start standing in bad stuff in an attempt to maximize themselves.

I had a DRG doing that the other day on the last boss of Fractal continuum, he wouldn't move away from the boss unless there were adds, he stood on active pads and bombs in an attempt to maximize his dps, thus causing the rest of the group to suffer for every bomb he stepped on.

TLDR: People who are focused on their dps output aren't focused on their environment.