Even I was impressed with Doom's performance, but here's the thing. I hear a lot more about RDM Melee on forums than I do in-game. This is not surprising, because there is a significantly larger potential population to draw from on forums. With that said, one can only assume that there are at least a couple well-geared RDMelees around on forums when so many people seem to be into it.

Yet I rarely see people actually talk about their personal RDMelee set, or come out to see how it stands up against another melee without backpedaling and giving excuses. Doom impressed me not only by having a pretty nice set, but also by stepping the frap up and parsing with someone.

I have no doubt that there are countless more available high-tier DDs to parse with on any server if another RDM thinks this parse was fouled and wants to do their own on something else. Really, my only condition for accepting the parse (which I'm sure is mirrored by many others here) is that we can make sure that the competing DD knows what the heck they're doing. It's fairly obvious, in my mind, that any SAM that is only capable of doing 125% the damage of a RDM on Colibri at 75 is doinitwrong. Edit: And the fact that the original claim cited the SAM using a Hagun on birds pretty much speaks to them being completely inept.