DPS Meter Usage?

[zoqor]

Thanks for the answer.

My concerns as a new player are:

1. The most popular BLM guide openly has a DPS meter in its tutorial. By watching that am I cheating? Why doesn't SE remove it from the DPS forum if it is not allowed?

2. If you are in a FC whose members use one of these things, are you by proxy benefiting from it and thus have a competitive advantage over others? Should you leave that FC (which I've already done)? Is the "damage already done" though to your character's integrity?

I don't want to keep playing this game knowing that I had an unfair advantage, even indirectly. I don't care about "getting in trouble" or if such a thing should or should not be allowed. That's not the angle I'm approaching this from. Others can argue that to the end of time. I just want to know that my character has done nothing wrong because I'm about ready to delete him and move on to another game. I don't like cheating and right now feel like my character that I've worked so hard with is "tainted" forever by this.