Quote Originally Posted by VeyaAkemi View Post
A point is that the use of parsers can be seen as mandatory for raiders, even ignore all the culture around it in the raiding scene, do consider: This is a game where high end content has enrages, to ensure you actually play well, and don't just walk in with 4 RDM and spam rezzes until the boss falls over, enrages are essentially raid-long DPS checks, the game never gives you any way to tell if you are doing well or not in terms of DPS, there is no way to tell if your rotation is good or not, or even if you did follow a guide, if you are executing it well, maybe you are concerned to fumble it in the heat of the moment, parsers are the only way to be certain that you are up to par, because the game never gives you a way to know otherwise.

ACT does have more to it than a parser, but that's a whole other can of worms, it's a framework tool, and how each person uses the framework is on them.
That's a load of baloney. Every skill says how much potency damage it deals. The rotation that deals more potency is the one that will deal higher damage. You don't need to have a 3rd party plugin installed to go to a website / discord of your choice and find the optimal rotation for any job you are interested in. If the guide with the optimal rotation says "use skill A, then B, then C", and the players don't do that, what difference does a 3rd party plugin that violate the ToS make?
And no, ACT is definitely NOT required to raid. What is required though, is people actually learning their job and not having an uptime of 65% even against striking dummy bosses.