Quote Originally Posted by Gilraen View Post
That's the thing, you often don't need numbers to see people doing poorly. It's often rather obvious like a melee DD that doesn't use positioning or a ranged DD that only uses 2 or 3 actions repeatedly. Sure, before the first wipe who's watching anyone, but after that it shouldn't be too difficult to give the other players a glance every so often to see how they're doing.
If their damage is completely and irrefutably awful, sure, but it's not so easy to tell if someone's not using all their CDs at the right spots (like saving them for Ravana's. . . whatever the stance is called when he's being aggressive, instead of wasting them on Beetle). At least not if you're also concentrating on doing your own job. As a healer, in any reasonably difficult content, you should be focused on health bars and DPSing when health bars aren't near empty. As tank you usually have the boss between you and seeing what anyone else is doing. As DPS you have your own rotation to worry about keeping right.

The difference between 1300 and 300 DPS is pretty easy to spot. The difference between 1300 and 900 is a lot harder to spot.

I don't have time to pull off a fight and watch what everyone else is doing to do that. Could I? Yes. But it would make my own DPS plummet as well.

I could also go through the battle log, add up damage numbers, look up DoT potencies and do some multiplying and reverse engineering on crit rates etc, to get the DoT damage, add all that up, and then come back knowing everything without using a parser. But I'm not going to do that either.