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.
This isn't exactly correct, during my Suzaku Ex farm this week I have seen instances where I am dead once or twice in the fight and still the top DPS in the fight. Now without a parser and if we wipe the blame would probably falls on me since I died but the truth is it's not my fault. If I pull 6k dps with death and another did 3k without dead, who fault is it if we wipe? Am I suppose to not die and pull 7k DPS to carry him? I don't expect people to have savage tier skill in extreme but I do expect them to pull their own weight. Doing 3k dps with ilvl 370+ is not acceptable at all but without an official parser they wouldn't know they are the problem and the rest of the party wouldn't know either, some else will become the scape goat for the wipe instead. Suzaku Ex is not the only instance I have seen this, even in Sigma savage I have seen this happens. A private parser that can be share if the players want to wouldn't be that bad. At least if someone call you out when you were doing fine you have something to back it up.