Quote Originally Posted by Huntington View Post
I've actually demonstrated it to a few people, one of them parsed for me and watched me wail on a dummy as he parsed me. 218 for ACN, 217 for SMN.
That just goes to show that you are not playing SMN very well. If you were, you'd be at 240 DPS on SMN, not 217.

Is that the issue here? You don't play SMN very well, and ACN is easier (more DoTs, less dealing with optimizing the time in between recasts?), so you do slightly better DPS as ACN, thus wonder why everyone makes so big a deal out of it?

Make a video then of your SMN and ACN dummy parses, I'll gladly help pick apart what you are doing wrong.