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I dislike dps meters as well I think they cause more damage to the community and would be especially problematic in an open world game where those dps can just tag along and follow you into an open raid or dungeon and cause problems for your group with extra pulls or just tag along and still fight without having to be in your party.

Sure there are going to be some instance raids/dungeons but most of them will be open to anyone any way and if someone you're trying to shut out can just follow you in, why use dps meters.

I am not really keen into DPS meters, and I stand by the same feeling the devs have about them: They can have negative effects on the game.(source)
If the game has DPS meters, they should not be visible to the public. There should also be a healing equivalent.

Overall, I think the game would be better off having a DPS number attached to the weapon.

I am hoping there is no meter. Just a number attached to the weapon and the ability. If there is a DPS I hope there is no way for sharing or seeing other peoples numbers.

dps check bosses are a staple boss to check if you are prepared for that raid/dungeon/content. It's an easy and good way to establish a baseline a raid has to hit before they can expect to clear the dungeon at all.

If I can't check what's wrong I can't improve and get ready. Especially if there is a multitude of ways to build, distribute stats and so on. Ideally everything is in an acceptable similar range and it's all more a question of how the damage is delivered and situational strong points. (high burst phases, slowly ramping up damage, constant sustained damage, aoe, dot damage, magical, physical whatever), but there is only so much balancing you can do, the more variables you enter the harder it gets to check them all. (which again is an argument for dps meter, it provides nonstop contextual community statistics to aid the balancing progress)

Imo there HAS to be a way to check your performance and imo there HAS to be a way to quickcheck if someone is ready for whatever content. You can't expect to sucessfully run a level 50 dungeon with level 25 gear (this is examplatory for a game designed this way).

If I take a person like that anyway it's because I made an informed desicion and I understand that I put a handicap on the group. In contrast if we just go in without knowing anything there is no way to understand why it's not working and why we can't progress. (exluding obvious reasons of failure like standing in hellfire for a minute)
Is it me? Should I use skills differently? Am I oom because I overhealed? Or is the tank not reacting properly to attacks? Is the fight taking to long because we lack the damage output?
Every role is interdependant, you can't just eliminate reasons and know when there isn't anything obviously wrong like the hellfire example.

I could put 50 questions on that and have no way to eliminate any of them.

Some games don't need it, they have very linear progression were you progress through levels and at max level you progress through tiers of difficulty. You just have more or less the gear of the last 2 tiers and you are good to go. Same with skills, you have them, you use them, it's that simple.

Ashes is, according to IS, not one of them, crafting is important and brings randomness into the equation. What mats are available? What can the server craft with it? You have a whole range of stat combinations/weighting through it, lot's of skills to build your skill kit from, augmentations, unlocks, ability/weapon progression and so on.
It needs a simplyfication to check if your particular way of building all those components together gets you anywhere you want to be.

People find ways, they always do, it only needs one video of one guy showing how his build absolutly murders that monster/those players. People will flock to that if it goes unchecked and stays "unbalanced" wether dps meter is there or not. I'm sure most of us have read class guides at one point to see what "is good".
Quote on quote because you can't even be sure if that is considered good or just a bit better than all the bad ways before.

I dislike dps meters alot. Especially if its displayed to others in a party. First of all if there is a dps meter, a heal or buff meter would be equally important to have. Also this pushes players into meta builds more to get max dps + prefering raw damage numbers over being a utility player or supporting in other means then doing damage. But iam more of a pvp/pk player myselve and never got into serious raiding, maybe iam wrong and it is really needed to weed out the weak so to say ? It just feels wrong to funnel down on numbers when fighting in a world full of grahpics and animations to base gameplay on.

One thing that I think would be a good touch would be a DPS meter you could opt into so it displays your personal stats to make sure you are doing your job properly. I personally love DPS meters because it helps me min-max the perfect build and is a quick way to find out what is truly helping in an actual fight. What does everyone else prefer?

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I hereby petition that we all try to raise two scientific nodes on the farthest reaches of the map.
The zeppelin connection should cut traveltime for everyone in half! XD

i think it will be really fun, when guilds will split among server and server diplomacy will be already going on

https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Nodes

According to the wiki, the type of NPCs you find in a node will tell you what kind of node it is. Divine nodes will have Priests, economic nodes will have Merchants, military nodes will have Guards and scientific nodes will have Scholars.