Quote Originally Posted by PROBOUND View Post
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Point is there is a heavy difference beween the dps posted by Firana and the one posted by Ooshima.

Firana does 520 with party buff (about 3% increased dps), food (about 1.5% dps increase), and HA (3-4% dps increase). That's about 8% increase compared to none of it. When i do my dummy rotation i usually ends up if i don't mess up in the low 470 range, and that's with body, ring and bracelet 120 (but not optimized gear). With 8% more i would reach about 510. With a bit of luck on crits and on mudra's timing, i can see the 520 with full i110 + ha/food/party.

Ooshima showed a parse indicating 518 without HA nor party buff (i assume still food). This is MUCH, MUCH higher than what firana demonstrated, and i have no clue how those numbers are achieved. Thus, i would appreciate, too, full disclosure on those parse: what gear is exactly used ? I use gear that is not BIS, although it shouldn't make much of a difference, but i assume i need to keep 510+ acc; allowing oneself to gimp the accuracy could result in up to 5% dps increase that is "hidden". Using pots could be a difference too. If there are no such explanation, then i would like to understand what is so different in the rotation that explains a 5-6% difference.

It is also possible that it was one very very lucky run. It is only 3 min long after all. The parse shown indicate a crit rate of 34% overall. To achieve such a result would require over 400 additional crit rate, so over 740 crit rate stat. That is not even possible at this point. With full i110 stuff, you can not go higher than ~520 crit rate, which would be slightly less than 20% crit rate. And that is by seriously slacking on the accuracy (sub 450).

Anyway, that means the parse had a crit rate at the very least 14% superior to what it should have been, possibly even more. That is an outlier, not a trend. And 14% increased crit rate would be 7% more damage, explaining the difference with other people that only parse at 460 maximum on the average dummy run.

I just think it's important to be sure what we are talking about. Claiming ninjas can regularly pull out > 500 parse without party nor HA in full i110 is not going to help us in any way.