Quote Originally Posted by Dzian View Post
Kinda proves my point. As you said it could be any of those things or any number of other things. Or any combination of any number of things.

Just a dps number means nothing without all that other information that explains why. And that's why personal parses alone would be useless.
It's an objective measurement that you can use going forward and looking back.

You did 3.7k one week. You can get an estimate of how much of that was due to having an Astro, monk, red mage, bard, dragoon, etc.

you did 3.5k the last week. You can estimate .....

If you do 4.1k the next week, you can estimate....

Etc etc etc.