Quote Originally Posted by Havenchild View Post
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Then you may have to understand most top FC players parse merged. Merged does not artificially lower your encounter DPS but it is unmerged that artificially increases your DPS.

This is because phase by phase benefits jobs that have high initial burst. For example, BRDs. It is pointless to parse unmerged and go say, hey wtf MNK why your DPS suck you are like more than 50 DPS less than me because some jobs just take time to build up. Setting a downtime of 30s will produce a single encounter parse that judges everyone's overall performance over the full duration of the battle.