Stop pretending that stone, sea, sky is good practice.

[kizumiayamame]

We call all only aspire to your level of 133+n355 one day.

Sorry it's elitist to expect my teammates to have more than one brain cell active during fights?

[Conundrum]

Sorry it's elitist to expect my teammates to have more than one brain cell active during fights?

I bet being in parties with you is a blast.

[kizumiayamame]

I bet being in parties with you is a blast.

You're right, duty complete parties are a blast

[Chie_M]

Sorry it's elitist to expect my teammates to have more than one brain cell active during fights?

Sadly, that's asking a lot.

[Equitable_Remedy]

Sadly, that's asking a lot.

*Record scratch*

Bruh.

[Floortank]

Sorry it's elitist to expect my teammates to have more than one brain cell active during fights?

Glass houses.

Your OP makes it obvious that you don't understand the purpose of SSS because you appear to be unaware of its actual use and are critiquing its misuse.

IE, you are unable to tell "using it wrong" apart from proper usage, and thus you're getting dragged.

[kizumiayamame]

Glass houses.

Your OP makes it obvious that you don't understand the purpose of SSS because you appear to be unaware of its actual use and are critiquing its misuse.

IE, you are unable to tell "using it wrong" apart from proper usage, and thus you're getting dragged.

This post is the equivalent of telling me I don't know the benefits of asbestos.

[SnowVix]

This post is the equivalent of telling me I don't know the benefits of asbestos.

No, this post has been you saying that baseball gloves are useless in cricket.

[Packetdancer]

No, this post has been you saying that baseball gloves are useless in cricket.

I mean, I'd say it's more like saying "Since safety equipment doesn't always save you in a motorcycle crash, it's not worth wearing any safety equipment ever."

Stone, Sea, Sky can show you that you stand zero chance of clearing a given fight, can help you see that you're improving your grasp on your job's rotation, and can also help you work on muscle memory for that rotation. All of those things are beneficial. It is not going to do a dang thing to help you know how to progress through mechanics, or even to know that your rotation can hold up while moving and resolving mechanics. But going into a fight knowing that you are at a bare minimum actually hypothetically capable of doing the damage the fight requires in the first place seems a better starting place than... well, having no such assurance.

In effect, it's safety equipment that will save you some of the time, but not all of the time.

I think there's absolutely a solid argument to be made that it would be good to have training options in addition to Stone, Sea, Sky; it is demonstrably not suitable as the only training option. Witness my mention else-thread that it would be nice to have something akin to the Masked Carnivale, but with a couple of different fights for healers, for tanks, and for DPS, which you could throw yourself at to see how well your rotation holds up in the middle of MECHANICS ARE HAPPENING scenarios.

But just because it doesn't address all training scenarios, that doesn't mean Stone, Sea, Sky isn't still useful within the narrow niche it does address.