(05-04-2015, 11:40 AM)Gegenji Wrote: The only places I've seen damage meters used in FFXIV was in a WoD raid and it was mentioned as an afterthought, letting us compare numbers and see how we did. The point for damage meters - from what I recall from raiding in WoW - was to make sure you were at the top of your game for progression content. Trying to make "numbers" in a random High-Level (not even Expert!) dungeon is dumb.
Nah in WoW the point was just a way to make people feel like shit and showcase epeen.
In FFXIV it's just a way to say "I am a giant tool who isn't aware/does not care that Square isn't supporting add-ons and am just risking a 3-day ban for being a giant tool."
The ORIGINAL point of these add-ons was just to add functionality to the game by gathering all the combat data into one easily digestible metric so you can break down the fights easier (e.g. : moving phase during a fight = dips in DPS for non-melee). They were just heavily misused because the general MMO playing population needs some serious lessons in interacting with other human beings on the internet.