Quote Originally Posted by dotsforlife View Post
Except that parsers can answer the why and how but a dummy is basically a pat on the back.

Don't speak on something you clearly have no knowledge of.
I know how act works. I know more about act than a lot of people do. ACT can tell you information that many people think you need fflogs for. such as breaking down how much of your damage came from each of your skills. you can do that in act without fflogs.

ACT is an amazing tool. I have no problem with it. My problem is the way the general playerbase has no idea how it works or how to interpret the data. they just look at the dps numbers and make there judgements on that figure alone. players are to lazy to actually read the data that explains the number they see.

this is also evidenced by people who think a personal only parser would work. because they clearly have no idea how much the rest of the party can impact there dps. and in order to get an accurate assessment of your dps. you need to know what the rest of the party is doing. so you simply can not have a personal only parse....

I've said numerous times in numerous threads ACT or an official in game parser would be amazing IF and only if the player base actually learnt how to use it properly. and the fact people think a personal only parse would work. clearly indicates they are the ones that have no idea what act does. if they think they can make accurate assessments with only a fraction of the data