The OP is right at there matter, the difference is if you care or not about this. I do, there is no community or social experience in the game, everything is to confusing, and its alot of flash but no substance. At lvl 45 im still alone, always was... at 50 the only difference is that i will sometimes meet with ppl to raid. yaay

**** are you seriously comparing tedious 4man level instances to end game Nightmare mode raiding?? and its not the mods that brings the attitude, that is already there... or are you saying that there wasnt clashes before wow had a parser? ...man i did ragnarok before parsers was there... and the community screamed for a parser..

So you are seriously saying that 70% of the encounters arent about as high dps output as possible? And that you dont care if all dps performs good, lets say you do really good dps, you wont know about it, cuz you cant tell what other ppl do, dont you want to know why you cant beat the rage timer? and as stated earlier, bad tank is obvious, bad healer is obvious, why shouldnt dps have the same demand.

I hope you se that its the game that is enginered this way, not the "mods" it is a dps dependent game, everything evolves around gearing and improving. With that kind of attitude to this game maby you should go play something else, like God of war or something realtime skillbased... This game is all about doing numbers nothing else, the rest is animations, and good rotations are skills, bad rotations are as good skills if you dont know what does most damage, and only cuz you ahve 2 abilities doing more damage dont mean they are the stake in the pot.

You are wrong. If i dont have a damage meter i will be pissed of because i KNOW there is someone or someones that dont do to good in my group, and there are gonna be fights about it noone knows and noone admits. But thats not the only point. i wanna know myself if im any good, or if we have problems with progressing we can see what needs to be done, dont be so naive.

Maby you suck and you destroy the group im in. I want to be able to tell so i can kick you the heck away from my group. That goes for ALL DPS, they should have to prove them self to, not just the tank or healer.

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You are stupid... Yes i said stupid.. You have no clue what a parser is all about. You sit there in your group with no info, the only thing you know is what you see when you inspect someone, you dont know if they do good damage, you dont know if they heal good, you dont know what killed you, you dont know if you are tanking good, having high AOE threat.. Everything that happens in raids and PvP is left for perception, its what you can see and tell is right or wrong. And for example if you do a random group raid, and you keep failing and failing and failing even tho everyone has the gear that should be anough for the encounter, but it just seem that you guys can beat it.. How can you tell if you are the one sucking or if it is someone else? How can you tell if a class might be underpowered, or maby OVERpowered.. You dont have a clue why parser is a MUST for these kinds of MMOs

Alot of you missunderstands the post from poster, its not that the story is bad or that there shouldnt be a story. But as its stated, the game has suffered in the core of MMO and instead gotten to rely more on epic storrytelling and progressing with interest of coming to the next act etc. Something i feel is pretty bad are all the instances, there are so many and they are so medicre that there are none whatsoever magical feeling about them, AND its harder to find groups. The feeling when you got in to Deadmines the first time was obsolete, it was hard it was big and it was an epic ending. Theese instances are just like the rest of the mao, they just added more HP and more damage to the mobs, and a regular boss that has 10times the HP. THATS IT. and that suck!!

Now this is a bunch of *********. Vsync murders my inputlag on all games, except a very few. This game is one of them where it really feels for me, now this isnt a typical problem that can just be "solved" its different on each system. And FYI tripple buffering INCREASES input lag. So keep your de-information for your self. OT: Id like for a FPS limiter also, it does the same job with screen tearing aswell, if you force 60 on anygame, the tearing is gone, so that is actually the only option that is needed, not vsync, vsync is old **** that needs to go, and we instead needs to get manual FPS limiting.

Hey ********, you need dps meter to evaluate your performance, or you mean we are gonna take out our calculators and calculate all abilities and GCDs to get out how good dps we can get with what rotations? NO we need to se everyones DPS so we can maxiimize performance, and to see what classes are better or worse.. Half the enjoyment is to perform good in a raid and get aknowledged by it, if you are afraid of a parser you are probably a lazy one not caring so much about overall performance, only intimidated to be the wost player.

So there is no GCD in wow? unresponsive controls and GCD is something anyone can differ between, and since its a known fact that there is some inputlag problems, especially in WF your post is useless. And the ONLY reason there is a queue for skills is so you can compete DPS wise with ppl that has better connection, this is a proble, in AION, where there is no queue time what so ever, so if you have 300ms to the server and no queue that means that 0.3 seconds after your GCD is done, you can start your next move, in 3 moves you are one second behind. If there is a queue system, it will execute the command as soon as 0.5seconds before GCD is complete(if that is your setting) and you will do your moves without breaks, making your inputs *** accurate as someone that has good MS. WOW always had this, from day one it queued the abilities, and it was always responsive, this game is not as responsive, but that is not a design problem, its lag problem, and it will be fixxed.