Tank damage WAR vs PLD testing data and parser

[Hitokirinomad]

I didn't use fracture because that is in both rotations for war and pld and as I explained that nullifies it's damage. I did use CoS and SW because they are unique to pld. Time control is set via globals and as long as I did relatively well in my rotations it shows the true perspective of damage.
I didn't max DPS because as I said it is a comparison not an attempt to max DPS.

I didn't know there was a parser, I didn't look for one, I didn't want to write a hook into the game and take time to do that, and I wanted to run the controls for myself.

Did you even read the post above I explained almost all of this.

Of course I read the post, that's why I opened with FOR CLARITY, and listed all of the ways you did NOT account for randomness in your experiment. People have already mentioned the Improved Fracture, so that's fine. If you didn't want to use a parser that's on you. Time control is set via globals for special attacks, what about auto-attacks? Why not just set a stopwatch, and do the rotation until it beeps instead of counting rotations.

Also you said you wanted to compare DPS, I don't understand how you compare POTENTIAL(theoretical upper limit) without attempting to maximize. If you were to compare tanking rotation, then you have the WAR rotation wrong.

And I'm not arguing your results btw, I have no dog in this fight. I have both tanks at lvl 50 with relic, and ST damage is not something that usually concerns me. Just pointing out some flaws in the methodology. But I seriously can't wrap my head around trying to compare damage potential w/o attempting to maximize that damage, in tank stance or out. Heck, as OT war I almost never use Butcher's Block that often because there is no need to fight for aggro and I maintain maximum uptime on the Eye/Path debuffs.