Originally Posted by
Imenion
Parsing, or Dmg meters, or whatever you call them are one of the best tools any MMO can have, and all the toxicity that comes with knowing someone's bad at DPS is a human problem not because of the meters. I hear lots of boasts about the FF XIV community vs other MMO's, so proof you're better by acting like human beings when DMG meters do come out.
Now, why it is a great thing.
1. If you're doing tough content and are failing because of a DPS check, you can actually see where the problem lies. is it overall just low? are there a couple people holding you down? Check the logs and you know. Now you can fix the problem! Good logs could also tell you who stands in what AoE how many times, and all kinds of usefull info.
2. Point #1 leads straight into this. You can with logs help people in a meaningfull way. Good detailed logs can show you exactly what someone is doing wrong: How many casts of a certain ability, buff uptime, activity, rotation. All of that stuff is good tasty information with which you can help someone with. Sure assholes will just point and scream at the numbers, but helpfull people can use this to fix other's DPS. Sure you can do it without logs, but with them you can be much more precise, and you don't have to troubleshoot the problem as you can clearly see it.
3. Good logs help improve yourself! I know without a doubt that my dps in WoW whould be much lower without logs. I can do a fight, look back at the logs and see exactly what i did during that fight, showing me what i've done wrong. Now i know my mistakes and fix them.
The only problem with this are the fools that scream and cry about it. Kick those whenever they speak up and you're fine.
All you nay sayers are depriving yourself and others from a incredebly usefull and helpfull tool, and it's a real damn shame.