Quote Originally Posted by Jetstream_Fox View Post
Well that's very easy to break down

1. You learn the skills and rotation by playing the game, the parse also doesn't tell you "HEY PLAYER USE THIS BUFF AFTER THAT SKILL TO GET A HIGHER DAMAGE INPUT" we learn that through experimentation WHICH we already have the means to do with standard striking dummies.

Honestly if think the concepts behind training in a game are different from one genre to another I can't help you there. Spending a few hours training on a fighter and 4 hours learning a class on a MMO are the exact same thing, you're learning how to play. Honestly it's like you players who want parse have no sense on what makes improvement.

The player still has to MANUALLY input the skill in order for the parse to say if it is higher or not, the parse WILL NOT TELL YOU WHAT TO DO IF YOU DON'T ALREADY KNOW. And I hate to break it to ya, but if a player is doing something wrong with their rotation at level 60 chances are they don't care, they disregarded the toolkit or they are doing it intentionally. A parse won't help with that at all, because again IT DOESN'T PLAY THE GAME FOR YOU.
1) A striking dummy is NOT enough, it doesn't tell you how much damage you are doing with the rotation. Thinking that the combos set out by the game and that a strinking dummy is enough is the reason for 1-2-3 DPS who don't use DoTs and buffs/debuffs.

YOU CAN'T train if you don't know that you are doing it wrong! That's what the parser WILL tell you - it will tell you: "Hey you are doing half the damage of the other DPS, despite being close in gear, you are doing something WRONG!" Most people think they are the best there ever was, so they will NOT train! Not to mention that training without a parsers is like training for a run without a stopwatch. You might feel that what you did different made stuff better, but it might have made it worse!

Yes, of course you need to practice your rotations to pull them off, a parser does NOT make you a great player, it just helps you get there yourself! It will tell you that you need to search for better rotations because your is crap. IT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO PLAY THE GAME FOR YOU!