Quote Originally Posted by Marxam View Post
You just answered your own question. I'm on PS4 also and I gauge player skill based on mechanic execution and relative ease of combat flow. A dead dps will always do less dps than a decent dps who didn't die the whole fight. Anyone can smack a boss that is just standing around but not everyone can do that while dodging aoes, doing mechanics and still getting in your positional's.
Indeed. I can do that - but even on my Areya character, I had found that I am hurting my group because either I'm not executing my rotation right, or I'm missing positionals, or I'm missing important casts. And I get that not everyone wants to improve. That's fine and dandy.

But I do. And I know others who can't use parsers would love to use a tool like this on consoles to improve. It drives me mad whenever I'm logged in, and I have no way of knowing if I'm hurting my group or not, just based on my DPS. I don't want to simply be decent...most players that I have seen in my 1+ year in FFXIV are decent, just by what I've seen in-game. I want to be good. Most folks on the forums are probably aware that I am driven by this obsession. And this is in a public discussion board. Who knows how many people who don't venture to the forums have similar sentiments. And again, I wish for it to be completely optional, and for it to only parse what you've done.