A self-improvement tool is needed in this game, especially for end game

[LineageRazor]

People will be people. Always.

This is true - but the forums have a bad habit of overestimating how malicious "people" actually are.

Take vote kick, for instance. Back before it was added to the game, the forums were ablaze with folks predicting the doom and gloom that would occur when it was added. Duty Finder would be flooded with trolls, forming parties with each other specifically to take folks to the ends of dungeons and then kick them, just for lulz.

Nowadays, folks can barely imagine not having the kick feature. It's a useful tool for removing folks who've disconnected, or are harassing party members, or what have you. Is it sometimes abused? Of course it is. But Duty Finder has not collapsed under the weight of the trolling, like many were expecting.

Seriously, though, the game DOES need some way for players to measure their own performance, ideally in such a way where the game actually suggests ways they can improve. Even when players TRY to help other players, many times they're on such a higher level of play that the advice they give sounds like gobbledygook. Just using the term oGCD will get a player's eyes spinning if they have no idea what a global cooldown is, or what actions it applies to - to say nothing of concepts like ability queuing, animation lock, and so on and so forth. It doesn't help when folks use terms from other games that are never used in this one, such as "taunt". Many of these concepts are crucial to understand in difficult content, and the game does not do much to help learn them.

[Vahlnir]

This is true - but the forums have a bad habit of overestimating how malicious "people" actually are.

Seriously, though, the game DOES need some way for players to measure their own performance, ideally in such a way where the game actually suggests ways they can improve. .

Oh, my opinion on the matter has nothing to do with the forums, just for the record. Mine is based off of years of experience in other MMOs, mainly WoW. And I have nothing against parsers themselves. I think they're a great tool. But there's a lot of potential for abuse and it would certainly change how the game is played. Not necessarily for the better. I don't know that for a fact, but this is my opinion. But the game does indeed need a way to show people that there's room for improvement. I just don't think it should be in the form of a parser.