An Alternative? to parsers..

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and you like everyone else seems to assume the soar thing was just bad players. Not entirely the case it was a gear issue most groups skipping soar had item levels ranging from 265-270 those were the people skipping soar.

Funny. I skipped it day one with a standard comp at 260. I also healed it at roughly the same ilvl. We also skipped. Meanwhile, I was apart of many 5-6 DPS parties that couldn't skip. Does gear make it easier? Absolutely. But you could skip at ilvl 250, provided you knew what you were doing. In fact, Xeno did an all-tank mock run and they pushed Zurvan to 77%. Not a skip but considering none of them broke 1,800, which any DPS job should by that point. Well...

Gear was very rarely the issue with skipping Soar. People simply don't know how to do openers. Granted, the game deserves a fair bit of blame as it teaches you nothing.