Quote Originally Posted by JanVanding View Post
If you're constantly grey, you're doing something wrong.
If you're green/blue you're doing something rotation wise wrong
If you're purple you're close and just need to fine tune and keep practicing
If you're orange or above, congratulations, you're now mastering your job.
Don't take this post to be against parsing in any way, but there's a lot wrong with this.

If you're green/blue you're doing something rotation wise wrong - Or you're playing perfectly but you're behind in gear. Maybe you're not using pots, and in pug runs some people don't want to waste them. Or someone killed you by failing a mechanic, since collateral damage is common in high end content. Or if you're a healer, perhaps your coheal is foisting all the GCD healing onto you.
If you're constantly grey, you're doing something wrong. - Combine factors from above, such as being behind in gear and someone failed a mechanic and took you out. Granted, this wouldn't be constant like being behind in gear would be for a while.
If you're purple you're close and just need to fine tune and keep practicing - Still might be playing perfectly and even geared, but you're in an off-meta comp
If you're orange or above, congratulations, you're now mastering your job. - No. You did your rotation perfectly, but maybe you've been doing that all along. Orange means you're playing in a meta comp with lots of raid buffs and you got good crit RNG on top of that. Congratulations, but mastering your job is only a prerequisite - getting orange requires much beyond that.

This post is why I wish more static recruiters would look deeper than just glancing at the ranking...