Top DPS in you t5 clearing groups?

[GhaleonM]

You should always use EncDPS...DPS is worthless because it doesn't take into account the duration of he encounter. I could sit and do nothing wait until one second before a fight is over, flare, then itll say I did 1k dps when I didn't.

Your dps worth is always your dmg/length of the fight so EncDPS is the only DPS value that matters. Well and your Outgoing Dmg.

[EasymodeX]

DPS for Titan Heart, Titan Gaols, and Titan Egis are more important than EncDPS for Titan.

[GhaleonM]

DPS for Titan Heart, Titan Gaols, and Titan Egis are more important than EncDPS for Titan.

Actually again its not because like I said before, I can merely flare at the end of any of those phases with 1% left on the goal, heart or an egi and it will say I did something very high when really I contributed nothing to any of those mobs.

If you were trying to make a case against it, outgoing damage was the way to go. DPS is worthless. I understand you may be new to ACT, but DPS isn't something worth looking at because it can be very skewed.

[EasymodeX]

If you were trying to make a case against it, outgoing damage was the way to go. DPS is worthless. I understand you may be new to ACT, but DPS isn't something worth looking at because it can be very skewed.

I don't make it a habit to group with people who afk until the last moment and drop a burst to intentionally skew secondary metrics. I suppose your experience is different?

You may not realize it if you are new to ACT, but there is also a duration field so you can identify results that are inapplicable due to short contact time.

As a side thing, how else would you propose to parse Atomos DPS?

[Airwolfe]

Just remembered that ACT stores data in history. Does you friend know he can pull up past encounters without the game up? =P
Looking through the cad fights from the last 6 weeks, I average about 320... I'll have to look into that but our SMN is pulling about 265 with pet dps. T5 was closer than I thought as our SMN pulled about 290 but still the DRG was over 310. Not sure how we are parsing higher on Twin than we are straight burn on Cad <__< kinda bizarre. I wonder if maybe something is skewing the data.

DRG parsing 310, more than they do on Cad, is an issue of the fight duration being cut short - on Twintania, ACT must be set to not drop combat when not applying damage for ~30 seconds.
Look at total duration. Anything less than ~10 minutes means you dropped combat and it's not the full fight.

[EasymodeX]

You can merge parses and the error is generally low-ish.

In any case, parses as promised:

T1 (missed CT): http://imgur.com/eKc4G1J,iqIMIwD,ZSFSkIv#0
T4 (dumping TP): http://imgur.com/eKc4G1J,iqIMIwD,ZSFSkIv#1
T5 (near-perfect fight RNG): http://imgur.com/eKc4G1J,iqIMIwD,ZSFSkIv#2

Edit: The correct T5 DPS in this parse is about 324, not 335, due to merging errors.

[xEscaflownex]

What do you set your encounter culling at easy?

[NeoAmon]

DRG parsing 310, more than they do on Cad, is an issue of the fight duration being cut short - on Twintania, ACT must be set to not drop combat when not applying damage for ~30 seconds.
Look at total duration. Anything less than ~10 minutes means you dropped combat and it's not the full fight.

You are talking about "Number of seconds to wait after the last combat action to begin a new encounter" option?

I have it set to 12 seconds.

[GhaleonM]

I don't make it a habit to group with people who afk until the last moment and drop a burst to intentionally skew secondary metrics. I suppose your experience is different?

You may not realize it if you are new to ACT, but there is also a duration field so you can identify results that are inapplicable due to short contact time.

As a side thing, how else would you propose to parse Atomos DPS?

You do realize even one second in a delay will heavily skew the DPS reading in ACT. And I already told you, outgoing dmg is the only way to value DPS on a mob that's like Atomos to see excactly how much dmg you're doing OR you can just end the counter once its dead to get an accurate dps reading like I do on those. Whether you like it or not DPS is worthless.

FTR I'm not new to ACT is originates from EQ2, a game I played from launch I know and understands how it works unlike most people who are just now being introduced to it.

[Valmar]

In T1 our Smn is Top dps, and pretty much every turn in Coil.