Damage Meters

You do realize if they open up the interface they can rely on the community to create things like Recount and such and spend no time at all on developing it themselves. Addon communities are also great for the game as the create fans just through that community alone.

I do agree with you though that the game is so insanely easy they are NOT REQUIRED. It would just be a nice addition for those that like to min-max and to fight off the criticism that this game is so lacking in functionality when compared to other MMOs.

As far as 'letting go of fear' if anyone needs to stop fearing things it's you. I don't 'fear' a lack of functionality such as addons and meters. You definitely fear them being added. That's clear in your posts. In my eyes if they aren't added I will just finally come to grips with this being the 'Hello Kitty" MMO I feared it would be and move on.

Ever notice how the people screaming for DPS meters and gearscore add-on's always seem to be on the forums and never actually playing the game.
Whats the matter? you mad Brah, because the game did not ship with your required EPEEN ruler?
I guess the upside to these things will be instead of nerd raging the forums more will spend their time standing around the fleet EPREENING to everyone how much more AWESOME their pixels on a game are.

I'm usually against damage meters, being that games are supposed to be entertainment and not something you need to work incredibly hard for.

However, since I witnessed a person do 8000 dmg 0 protection 0 heals and 0 defend attack points in a pvp match I feel like the gamers could use some scrutiny.

And yes he was there the whole match.

I'm going to go with a vehement, screaming "NO!" to damage meters as well.

No thank you, no way, no how, no no no and hell no.

You raise a strong, convincing argument. Do you have a pamphlet I could read?

I play the game for fun. Am I having fun? Why yes, yes I am. I am not going to argue about why I am having fun versus people that aren't having fun.

While I don't have an issue with damage meters, I do have a problem with people telling me how to play the game. What equipment I should have, or what rotation or powers I should be using. That's not fun for me.

Do you ppl even read the Dev chats. This is a dead horse.. They said damage meters are coming..so get used to it. So are stats that everyone can see. Like deaths/kill damage/healing and win/loss.

In my MMO experience, (WoW up to Cata), meters are not all bad or even that bad at all
all the dps class should be doing approximately the same dps on a raid if they are specced/geared/same-skill (approzimately meaning within 5%)

if one person's dps is ******, then they are probably not specced/geared right and are a detriment to the group. I think that the responsible mature way to deal with this is continue with the instance/heroic area w/e unless the weak link makes it impossible, and also to explain to the weak link that his build is flawed and he should look at respecing a little to make his build more viable for group content.

if you want to spec however you like, more power to you, but why should your 15/7/19 build hold the group back, if it works for you solo, it doesnt neccesarily work for the group

in my experience i never had an issue getting kicked out for ****** dps, (or in my case, tanking), and a more experienced player gave me some tips on how to optimize my build

i dunno why people are hating on this idea so much

its ridiculous how many people are against this. wake up!

Damage meters (any scoring device for that matter) will always be used for ill will towards the players by a certain group of players.

that is a very serious responsibility that bioware is debating internally.

IT CAN HURT the player community.

Please be sure you understand what you are asking for.

Individual player combat logs are being added. Reading from those logs via a parser may not be added. You'll have to do the math by hand.
Technically, you can do the math by hand right now though.