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

[DBriggs304]

First time I've ever heard that any type of practice isn't good, but ok.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

SSS helps you realise if you are doing your rotation totally wrong, if you have the min ilvl but cant meet the dps check it shows you need to work on something. Dummy rotation is how I learned monk positionals, getting yourself comfy in your rotation on the dummy helps you improve in actual fights as you think less about the rotation and more about how to optimise and play around the fight. Who pissed in your cheerios yeesh.

[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.