Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth View Post
Except this isn't why people use fflogs. For someone who isn't a "super bad casual" I'm surprised you don't know this. Fflogs when used correctly is about more than just numbers. Numbers tell you very little other than "can do rotation correctly, didn't die, possibly got fed buffs". Especially on jobs outside healers that can raise..


Also, numbers are meaningless without a comparison. If you saw you did 20 dps, and there was nothing else. And you always saw you did 20 dps, you think "I'm I'm pretty consistent, that must mean I'm good".
Oh? And beyond comparing your numbers to others in the same category, to see what they were doing to get a higher parse, what else are they for? Don't kid yourself. Fflogs and its primary function, paired along with XIV analysis is to diagnose what you can be doing to pump out more dps, what you can trim as far as bad rotational errors and replace them with a more optimal rotation. That, and seeing when to use raid buffs in the most optimal way to again, squeeze out more dps and get higher numbers, is the primary function of the program.