Yeah, parses are for all intents and purposes "illegal" on FFXIV. Though the general consensus is to maintain Fight Club rules. Don't talk about (and definitely don't harass about it). It's a great tool to measure your maximum DPS potential with a class and it just one tool a player can use to help improve themselves.

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Anyway, that DRG must have been having a bad day. They usually get 1k in fractal easy.
The parse itself is over a 16 minute duration, so it's including all trash pulls in the dungeon. Something like that would highly favour a WHM and their AoE potential and do a disservice towards melee's so it's not an accurate representation of the party DPS on things that matter (bosses). Individual Boss parses are important because it can gauge how well you're doing while dealing with mechanics, adds, etc etc