Quote Originally Posted by Dervy View Post
Total_Damage / Encounter_Time = encDPS

encDPS * Encounter_Time = Total_Damage

Total_Damage / encDPS = Encounter_Time.

encDPS is the exact same measurement, just compressed.
I know how to calculate the numbers Dervy ¬¬. It's about it's interpretations, that's what I want to focus. I can't count how much times I got to explain someone how to analyse his/her performance despite the EncDPS showed at miniparse. Already met a lot of skilled players (on their Jobs) that tought they were lame, and turned that they were pretty good players, but their strat/team just didn't cooperate with his/her potential, and the person was just trying to change rotations or gears. And same for some bad ones, caried on mechanics, making everyone do a lot of extra job on mechanics, just to parse higher EncDPS numbers to showoff.

And I'm not even talking exclusively about Final Fantasy.

It's not about all the experienced players on this thread. It's about the new ones, who often came here to seek some knowlege, and see so much importance beeing given to the EncDPS. Look at the last pages. We had pages of discussion only on random numbers until someone post real relevant data to be analysed, or even start to discuss about strategy.