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    Player Kosmos992k's Avatar
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    Kosmos Meishou
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    Paladin Lv 90
    Quote Originally Posted by ShanaShirayuki View Post
    Proper rotations came from parsing. All these guides you read, all these video guides you watch, all these threads or posts on how to DPS, all of them have a root in parsing. Sure trial and error as well as experience come into play with these guides, but parsing is just as valuable as the aforementioned, since knowing when your abilities will do the highest amount of DPS is key against enrage/DPS checks. Also you mentioned theorycrafting earlier, which is all about numbers... which a parser is all about.
    Yeah, right. Instead of taking the information given in the skill descriptions, and using their experience during play, everyone who wrote a guide just closed their eyes and let the parser do it for them... It's honestly flabbergasting to me how many people put such stock in parsers that they can't imagine how to improve without one, so much so that they presume that anyone who is 'good' must have used a parser. I don't read guides BTW, I learn by experience and knowing the skills. Theorycrafting is about looking at the skills and working out how to use them best, when to use buffs, what circumstances to use a particular interrupt, and so on, yes it's a lot of numbers, so what, it's players using their intelligence to work out the best combinations of skills in different circumstances, not simply focusing on your parsed dps, or how you get that last 10th of a point.
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    Last edited by Kosmos992k; 10-18-2015 at 05:03 PM.