Parsing unfair but okay?

[JanVanding]

I was mostly agreeing with your post until this part. People don't get orange just by mastering their rotation, yes, but you still seem to imply it's all personal responsibility. There's factors varying degrees out of your control. In a pug group with 2 physical ranged? You're not getting orange even if you've got plenty of oranges under your belt, even if you know your rotation perfectly, mechanics perfectly, and can execute everything perfectly in the circumstances of those mechanics. Or maybe you will if you get amazing RNG.

In a perfect comp? RNG might still go "F you" and deny you that orange until you do another run.

Mastering one's job is merely the price of entry to have a chance.

Though, I do feel it's worth mentioning FFlogs has plenty of tools for in-depth analysis. I merely wish to caution against trusting ranking too much, for both evaluating one's own performance and for others'. Especially on the eve of savage's release - a lot of people might be doing their rotation fine but not shell out for crafted gear or so on, and the rankings will punish them for that.

Agreed, I don't put too much faith in rankings as you'll typically find groups using cheese strategies (such as single tank single healer strats in the current EXes to heavily pad their stats) and parsing at face value should be taken as guideline and not gospel

That's why there's in depth charts and tools that will decipher that information and if I were a raid leader that was asked to review a parse, I'd use the analysis tools as opposed to "oh you're in the top 2000? You're good to go" because that won't paint a proper picture and the devil is in the detail.

[Somnolence]

Agreed, I don't put too much faith in rankings as you'll typically find groups using cheese strategies (such as single tank single healer strats in the current EXes to heavily pad their stats) and parsing at face value should be taken as guideline and not gospel

This would make it "non-standard comp" in FFlogs, meaning separate ranking.