Tools they could add besides DPS meters... (For endgame)

[Colt47]

This. They will never, ever give you raiders something that you can use to 'gauge abilities' in game, like officially sanctioned DPS meters or some nifty score in a profile because those things can and will be used as a bludgeon against others.

Raiders already know this.. you guys already know that even your current parser use is strictly speaking against the rules. SE simply chooses not to enforce on it as long as you keep to your own little parser clubs, in part because they understand it does play a role in your preferred content (Savage/Ultimates). Even so much as a slip of the tongue in a careless moment can get you reported and dragged into Mordion Gaol to give some clarification to a GM who finds themselves slightly curious about statements reported to them that indicate parser information.

It's not against the rules to use a parser. If you use it to harass someone it is, but otherwise you can use them without a problem.

Furthermore, I'm tired of discussions where people demonize the raiding community like they are all pricks. Most of the people who do savage and ultimates are good people to play with and they don't push standards onto anyone in this game. You want some of that go play World of Warcraft, Overwatch, League of Legends, etc.

The issues and frustrations most people have is that not everyone uses discord in these runs, we need better tools to provide learning assistance for people to tackle the content since after all these years we are STILL relying on youtubers to crush content ahead of everyone and make guides. The reason they don't support dps meters is because they shouldn't even be needed to judge performance, but we're ending up doing it anyway because class design doesn't always make it clear what set of moves provides the best progress in a fight.

And as far as end game content goes, savage content is STILL better than most of the content they have released that is grind heavy like Eureka and now Bazja, which had to go through a lot of changes to even be viable since no one would even TOUCH castrum until they modded it for rewards. Just look at Savage DR and tell me how playable that is compared to running EX and Savage? I didn't even DO savage until this expansion and I'm doing it because it is the better content.