Guild Wars 2

Gw2 is a great game first and foremost. I am just wondering if Anet is ever going to implement a system to benchmark ourselves in a dungeon with a viewer of DPS, damage dealt, healing. resurrections etc.

I feel it gives a sense of achievement and a feeling of contribution. And we can learn from others that play better. It would too benefit Anet. For instance if it was gear. More people would use the trading post to upgrade their equipment. Tweaking their toons inadvertently some may buy gems to convert to gold to buy items.

Once you hit level 80 it’s becomes like fashion week. Getting the shinies, which in my opinion it’s fun. And I enjoy this aspect tremendously. But maybe there are folks who wants to strive to be better. Maybe a benchmark system would make a player feel more like a hero knowing he saved the day or contributed more or he walks away trying to work harder to excel. And make this optional with a voting system for those that don’t agree with this system.

Just my thoughts.

Casuals hate DPS meters

If they did this, casuals would complain about how they aren’t doing as much damage as I do.

I wear casual clothes when I play Gw2 so I don’t feel such like a lifeless kitten xD

The maw fractal is kind of a benchmark of how bad your pug is. Go solo a tentacle on your own while they focus the same one and look at how fast you take yours down. If you’re really unlucky you will kill yours before they’re finished with their own.

Well, equal power base is all right. It is good. but we can still tweak the runes, rotation, gear and weapons. If everyone is wearing the exact gear. Its all right too. Then it will be based on skill. I don’t think under geared folks would be negative but rather they would seek advise. As everyone knows the GW2 community is a great one =)

Actually an interesting benchmark would be something of the sort:

At the end of the dungeon some stats are produced:
-total damage dealt by the group
-total downs in the group
-total rezzes in the group
-total seconds of weakness applied
-total attacks blinded
-etc (many statistics representing all outputs inputs possible)

And then each player would get a personal debriefing telling them what percent of these totals they have produced.

You could even have a group average for each statistics so you can benchmark your group against the average group.

This way everyone knows what they have done personally, the group as a whole knows what they have done as a whole, and players afraid of performance checks won’t be threatened with public exposure.

Well if an average pug group takes down Lupicus in 5-10 minutes versus someone soloing Lupicus in 5-10 minutes…

Most minmaxers probably do 2x-5x as much DPS as your average pugger.