Hello !
Im a new player to this game and I’m liking it very much thus far. I have been playing wow for 10 years and we just took a break since theres not much happening atm, although my experience as previously stated is limited I’d like to share my view on dps meters / healing meters and so on.
In wow its pretty much a fact that everyone who plays at a raidlevel use a dps meter, there are several reasons for this of course, ( among these, some might lead to toxic behaviour ) but it is also used for good and I would like to point out some obvious facts:
- Measuring how optimally you are performing.
In general when progressing a boss you will notice that you will have quite terrible dps in the first attempts but slowly you start doing better and better, a meter will help you determine if you’re doing things correctly or if you need to switch things up in order to help your raid.- Helps officers track whats going on in the fight / what needs to change.
Most notable is a death meter, it shows what happened to you prior to your death in order to see if some players needs to change something / avoid dmg better or if theres a mechanic that needs to be dealt with somehow.- If 2 players share a profession they can help eachother become better players
Comparing who did what and how much percent of total damage was done by what spell can help you help others players perform better ( obviously if the other person is a toxic player this wont help. My point is that dps / healing meters arent toxic, people are).They work in WoW because of how WoW is set up, in terms of rolls, like tank, DPS and healers. I played WoW too and did raiding. I found that in most cases, DPS meters where used to weed out people not hitting the desired damage and removing them from the party. And lets be honest here. The meters made everything really easy. Not to mention the others like raid call(the one that tells you when a boss is going to do something, I think it’s called that. Not played WoW since cat, and have no intention of going back) the amount of raids I’ve been on that where just face rolls because of these meters was hysterical.
I know what you are going to say, and you already know the answer. If you didn’t use there tools. You could not go raiding. As a Tank I was always asked to have this meter and that. Or I couldn’t come.
Add the meters and I will bet vital parts of my anatomy that people will be complaining that raids are too easy.
A DPS meter is like having your mum hold your hand and tell you, “You’re doing a good job sweetheart, keep it up”.
I’m not interested in hand holding.
Fair points. maybe not a dps meter but something that you can put up combat logs up to? so you can look up buff uptimes, causes of deaths etc. This way there’s no hand holding but genuinely good information to read up on.
In any event the reason for my post wasnt ‘this is why you need dps meters’ only posted it to highlight that it can be used for good since alot of people seem to feel disgusted by the idea.
A game like gw2 might not need a dps meter for all I know, raiding isnt even out yet.