Quote Originally Posted by Celine_Aurora View Post
The worst thing my old static could have done to "empower" me for my first Savage experience was telling me to practice on the P5S dummy before our first raid. I killed it handily because of course, went to raid with them feeling like I had already surpassed their expectations and got brutally beat down for three hours that made me so miserable I swore off the game entirely for a dozen days.
Personally, I test against the fourth floor dummy instead (such as P8S). By the time I'm that far my gear will probably be better anyway, but I do it anyway.

Also how good you can keep your rotation up on a stationary target ends up being almost meaningless the first time you're trying that during a fight doing mechs.
While true, how can you do your rotation correctly in a fight if you can't even do it while stationary? How can you beat the fight if you do the rotation so poorly that the dummy is at half health when the time runs out?

Rotations are not that hard but it's a simple check for a new player at least to see if they are doing something extremely wrong.