To all the SMN QQ

[Rainsford]

If you wait to use your buffs until Fester is off CD, you're wasting time. And it just gets back to the fact that having to idle your SMN while you wait for Rouse, Spur and Contagion to cast is all time where a BRD is keeping up full DPS.

And the parser does a real good job at accounting for DoTs. Tested it by adding up Bio damage by seeing what numbers popped up and then comparing to what the Parser gave me. Numbers are never more than 1-2% off. That difference does not account for doing 90% of DRG/MNK damage and 50-60% of BRD.

Keep in mind that, as average gear level increases, every class will see the same benefit, while SMNs pets, which account for 20%~ of damage, won't. The DPS gap will only widen over time.

[Malix]

If you wait to use your buffs until Fester is off CD, you're wasting time. And it just gets back to the fact that having to idle your SMN while you wait for Rouse, Spur and Contagion to cast is all time where a BRD is keeping up full DPS.

And the parser does a real good job at accounting for DoTs. Tested it by adding up Bio damage by seeing what numbers popped up and then comparing to what the Parser gave me. Numbers are never more than 1-2% off. That difference does not account for doing 90% of DRG/MNK damage and 50-60% of BRD.

Keep in mind that, as average gear level increases, every class will see the same benefit, while SMNs pets, which account for 20%~ of damage, won't. The DPS gap will only widen over time.

Do this test. Apply Bio to a target, look and see if it is ticking the damage or adding a simulated full duration damage. if it is the later than theres your problem. i dont know what u are using but they show miasma and not bio or bio 2. Also, ive mentioned this before but ill dumb it down either further. Cast a spell on a mob and look at the battle log, notice how instead of saying X character did x damage to target it says the target takes x amount of damage. In a group environment that data can be mistakenly placed somewhere else. For example lets say your damage from fester post at the same time as a sch. ruin, there is a chance that he could get credit for that damage towards his ruin as oppose to it properly parsing fester. This is why people need to research how parses work before they try to pass it off as factual evidence.