Quote Originally Posted by Risvertasashi View Post
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. 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...

If you die you don't get orange or purple. Keep that in mind.

There's a lot more to it than simply hitting your rotation right we both know that, it's also fight knowledge, mechanical eptitude, buff synching, positioning so you don't cancel autos whenever possible (getting turned around as a ranged will cancel your autos, moving out of range will cancel your autos and autos really matter, they're a good portion of your dps, in the case of the likes of MNK or RPR they're every bit as important as your rotation) knowing when you can greed or when you have to back it off

People don't just get orange by Mastering their rotation

Anyone and I do mean anyone can sit and attack a dummy and get a perfect rotation but in a fight with lots going on? That's where getting good with your rotation matters as if you can rotate AND do the fight correctly, then you're getting that orange parse.

Otherwise, blue man group.