Quote Originally Posted by xxmiamorecadenza View Post
There's a difference between knowing how to play your class and assuming you know how to play your class. I've seen 0 parsing - and I mean the absolute bottom of the barrel DPS - openly boast they're the best damage dealer on the team. When I started playing MNK last tier - I thought I knew what I was doing. Low and behold I was parsing between 12 and 20 on my respective logs. I only fixed it after my static kept posting logs. Otherwise I'd have remained utterly ignorant of the fact that I actually had no idea what I was doing. Me possessing that valuable knowledge caused me to go from gray to purple in a single tier.
Thats good for you, Im not doubting this improved your game and you have more fun. But if you start to push that on others to use it, blame them for not performing optimally, push it on people and potentially harass them for not doing max deeps then we have a problem. This is what I dont like "oh wow im playing super optimally, everyone should do the same."

Ive researched my classes, I know what the optimal rotations are. Guess what half of the time I dont bother keeping track, as long as I perform well and do boss mechanics thats good enough and this is how FFXIV is designed, its designed for the casual players to have fun without worrying about being super hardcore. When I did Shb savage trials back when they were relevant, I didnt expect the group to do max damage, I expected them to mostly know the fight, allowing human error and guess what it was a positive environment. Is it the most efficient? No, but Im also not going to push every player in this game to adhere to my rules. Just like you shouldnt push others to parse just because you find it good for you.