Quote Originally Posted by Craiger View Post
Thank you. Parsing players being taboo is a weird view on things...
It's taboo because it can cause discrimination and harassment.

Calling players out on their DPS is a bad thing, but why would they care about it when they don't even know about it? You said that it's possible to judge DPS based on enmity bar anyways... so no difference.
I was simply stating that you don't need an illegal third party program to judge DPS when there is an in-game way that does basically the same thing. The difference is one is in the game and the other is against the ToS.

Your original post you said you only get commendations because someone must be running a parse. Some people don't use parsers, some people don't use them with people they don't know, but the enmity list can be used as a way to see who is doing more DPS if need be. That's it, that's all.

We all have our own views on things like this I guess, but I just feel that we should encourage players that actually puts some effort in and do decent DPS. [...] Is it wrong of me to acknowledge him for actually spending some time to improve? We need more casual players to do that IMO.
We should encourage new players, absolutely, but not by a number value. They should be encouraged for doing mechanics, like dodging AoEs and killing adds, as DPS values means nothing if one is dead. Knowing how to play their class (ie, their buffs) is also very important.

The numbers don't mean much of anything, someone can know how to play their class really well, but have low DPS numbers because their gear is outdated, just as someone can be pulling crazy DPS despite not doing anything correctly because they're over-geared. There are more factors to the situation than just straight DPS and someone who is making the effort should be rewarded just as much as someone who is 1337DPSingz.