Damage Meters Please

Because any tool can be abused. This tool has been used many times incorrectly.

??? so we should all suffer because there are a few idiots out there????

next your going to want to have only 2 actions in the game 1 will be dps 2 will be out of combat regen for healer classes they can have heal and out of combat regen and tanks can have taunt and out of combat regen

this way all the idiots don't have a problem

Play with people who use it correctly instead. There are plenty of them out there, and most in high end progression know how to use recount for more than DPS. It's PuG leaders who tend not to know what they are doing.

There are real-time parsers that work just like your own personal damage meter. It won't tell you who is breaking CC, but I find that to be pretty obvious most of the time.

I really love how some of you guys think that you know better if the other person needs something or not.
Umm, so what? Need/greed system can be abused. Vote kicking system can be abused. Even general chat can be abused. Everything can be abused, but that doesn't lessen the usefulness of the said features for the majority of people.

http://www.swmonitor.com/ works in conjunction with http://www.askmrrobot.com/

Monitor has a Damage // Heal and Threat meter that have screen overlays. Asking this development team for -anything valuable- has been laughable since Beta because it never fit in their "vision" (the obviously flawed one). Look at how long it took for Customizable UI's FFS.

Also... The supposed "guild/raid leader" who didn't use meters: Casual content in wow didn't need meters after Burning Crusade (10 mans) because they were a joke. Any respectable raider who cared about how well they performed for their raid group had a meter running.

Tanks and healers might be able to tell you who is breaking CC. In my case I'd notice because I've helped with raid leading and I'm a tank so I tend to pick up the loose mobs before they become a problem.

I still love people who CC then instantly attack the mobs they just CCed. Always makes my day.

Hmm... why not leave them as third party apps then. Those that need them can use them and have an array of different meters to choose from.

I don't see why it has to be a feature the game offers. I'm using a couple of different meters for my own personal use. One realtime meter and one log parser. Couldn't be happier with the output and results.

As an old wow raid leader starting from back in the days of AQ40, MC, BWL to current content( untill I put wow on hold until MOP comes out.) I can tell you without a doubt I would take the raider who has the best raid awareness, which is much more valuable than sheer dps/hps numbers. I don't care if you can put out about 100K dps, if you stand in stupid and die every pull your not needed, dead dps is no dps.

Case in point, had a DK in my raid group in wrath who was always dead last on recount, and i wondered why untill I made it a point to watch him during a ICC raid, to see what he was doing wrong.

I played my ranged toon instead of my tank on that run so I could zoom out and see the whole fight area clearly. This little DK was working his behind off, he was all over the place peeling lose mobs off the clothies and kiting them back to the offtank and tank, he was interrupting every time, even if he wasnt asked to just to make sure it wasn't missed., he was running back to the healers putting down anti magic zone to shield them during aoe. he was giving up a great portion of his dps to make sure bosses went down healers stayed up. he was horrible dps but more than made up for it by being raid aware. so to sum it up a meter just tells part of the story there are so many more variables than just those numbers.

Pretty much this ^.

While we still wait on promised content delayed at launch, I would hope that embellishments of this kind would wait their turn for implementation. Really, the game needs more content first, then different gizmos of limited player interest.