Feedback talk:User/Foxhound/Damage Meter

This might be a terrible idea. Having a dps label on a character can segregate him/her out of a party. For say, if a newb necro has a dps of (im just making this up, i dunno if the dps labeled here is good/bad) 100 dps, and a more experianced necro has a dps of 300 dps, then we ALL know, we are gunna want to get that 300 dps'er rather than the 100 dps'er. If that 100 dps'er doesnt get a party and ends up staying a 100 dps'er noob, then he'll either rage quit the game or try really hard to get some advice/tips. If you don't find my backup convincing, look at modern-day HA. People nowadays only want people with a rank that is greater than 3 (i think) and if not, its usually a guild team, or a random way team or a noob team. If the rank 1/2 don't get a good party, and if they ARE good, then they'll be rejected into the noob teams and never be able to go into good teams. Just because people are below rank 3, doesn't mean they suck. They may be new, but they also may have a lot of potential, and these rank 1/2's arent getting the chances they deserve. And trust me, im a rank 1 50pnt Hero in guild wars. xDD. I know what im talking about. --Eclipse143 01:06, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

I kinda like this idea for the aspect of self improvement. You can change your set up and quickly know if you have improved or not, rather than having to use it over a long period of testing to see if the numbers over enemy heads are bigger than before in general, or if the numbers over your head is smaller or whatever. However, if it is visible to anyone, you run the risk of what Eclipse said happening. So maybe this feature could be visible ONLY to yourself, or selected other people (maybe guildies/friends/party memebers who are helping you improve your character). --Jimmer123 19:16, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

I don't know how big addons were in GW1, but going off of WoW it shouldn't be hard to make/find a DPS meter addon after release. I don't see why it should need to be in the game itself. If GW2 does not support addons, then I approve, but only if it is private (for reasons mentioned above) and used as an individual measure of how you're doing. --Thunderduck 23:18, 25 April (UTC)