depends if there is anyone left to fight

I think its throwing your light sabre. http://swtor.wikia.com/wiki/Saber_Throw

asking a question on a forum is hardly an obsession, i think the OP made a good comment, and the amount of replies upholds that. To attack the OP rather than comment is a tad immature isnt it?

The reason I target DPS is because it is usually DPS that is in competition, I actually play a medic in all the MMOs I have played, and as a healer sit there at the bottom of the DPS list From a healer Pov the aim is to get the tema through it, some healers may spam out massive heals others may thow out DoTs and keep people topped up, it never really matters how you heal as long as the team lives

The problem is not within guilds, I would say that any decent guild would notice an low equiped memeber and work as one to build them up, or accept their style of play and use it as part of their 'plan' .. the problem is with the general community and although I hate PUG groups there are times we all have to do them.

I was just about to say this, the character creation system is so dull and there is very little difference I just accept what I got

Lets put two scenarios on the page. 1. We have a player who has got a gun with a massive hit, hes been lucky and had a good drop, he has boosted his aim and all his tallent tree to support this gun. He spends allt he raid hitting the F1 key and blasting away, getting a massive DPS 2. We have another player who has spec'ed for crowd control, an stuns, he has not had the luckto get a good gun on a drop. but he spends the raid stunning and calming the adds, puttting in a lot of effort but getting a low DPS. with these metres, player 1 is often seen as the best, even though we know hes not. the 2nd is more of a team player.

Im not sure if you are American or British, but here in Britain we do actually have amature teams and we are inclusive, I help run a Rugby club, and everyone gets to play regardless of their standard. I accept that 'Slackers' are bad, and we encourage players to work better, but there is a difference between putting in no effort and being a low scorer and those that try and just cannot make it. I understand the Goofing around, and we in sport would substitute a player who does not try, but these logs do not show if someone is trying or not, it just shows a score in comparison with other peoples on the same team.

You will, and you will touch yourself thinking of me

I personally have no issue about you knowing what damage/heal etc you did, I too would like that, but what I dont want is for you to see mine and make decisions about my playn style because of that.

Chuck Norris gave up Huttball after seeing me play

Thats awsome, I think that is the real way to test kit, against a known standard.

Do you know what would be good, if you had a Range. in your spaceship where you could bring up a combat droid, that does a set amount of damage etc. and you can then get your stats in private after. That way you could tune your character against a set standard. Since the game and mobs include a lot of randoms, then this method would be more accurate than a DPS meter as that cannot take into account the randomness.

I am not having a go at you, and maybe your one of the better hardcore players, infact most real hardcore players are usually quite acceptable and understand the game and like to try different options out. it is the wannabe hardcores, those that brag about getting 10,000 DPS and yelling that you only got 9,999 DPS and you must be slacking. Those are the people most of us fear,

I agree whole heartedly. I remember that as soon as we had to play to damage meters etc, we as players were told what Talent tree to focus on, what equipment to have, what buttons to press and when. It was anoying to be talked down to, and it became the reason I quit, I pay, I play my style and it may not be 100% efficient, but suits me.