Damage Meters

Should we make players' armor and talent builds invisible to other players, too? People in all MMO's to this day gloat in chat about their skills and gear compared to others. That's the case whether there are meters or not.

In my case, I couldn't care less of what strangers think.

Meters would be good for myself to help me get better. I've tough enough skin to not break down in tears if someone points out they're x % higher than me in area y or z. But in a group with friends, working together to improve, I think if we're aware of how each other's doing, we can help each other out that way with meters.

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There was an external meter for Rift within weeks. I'm sure someone will eventually do the same while we wait on BW to make an in game one.

I wouldn't mind a target dummy for personal training. Don't really care to see recount posts spammed repeatedly tho.

You fail to move out of **** and the damage meters wont look so good in your favor. Next argument.

Personally I feel that in an MMO where players must work together that damage meters are an absolute necessity. It's not just for judging the performance of other players, it's also for judging your own performance. I want to be able to see how changing my priority list/rotation of spell casting can affect my damage or healing output and make changes in order to improve how effective I am overall. It's very difficult to make a judgement call on this by just guess work and "how it feels" without a legitimate method of measuring my performance.

PVE just isn't the same without damage meters.

And without a damage log where pray does such a meter draw its data?

I honestly don't think Bioware knew they were going to get this much resistance in the community...I'm pretty sure that's why the combat log and any type of meter is on hold for now...I think they want to see which way the majority of the community is going to swing.

I don't know, how do they have damage meters at the end of Warzones?

Use the same system, problem solved.