upcoming rdm changes?

[Kabooa]

What I'm saying is that, when looking at Savage, you look at more than one, single, solitary parse. Which is what you're doing when you look at 95th percentile--that's not a spread of parses, even at mastery level.

95th percentile is not a single parse. It's the 95th percentile. It's taking the aggregate of data and saying "Out of a scale of 1 to 100, those in this range did better than 94% of people and worse than 5%".

It's not a singular parse.

We choose 95th-99th for the following reasons.

A) These are people who are playing the game better than 94-98% of the rest of those that publicly provide data, which is already much less than those who play. These are players who may not understand the underlying gearworks and theory but understand its practice.

B) We prefer it to max because Max tends to be examples that aren't easily replicated - like critting 100% of your big potency dumps despite having 20-25% crit rates. The vast majority of 'good' runs will fall in the 90-95th range.

C) The players on the left end of the bell curve are generally making significant mechanical mistakes that would convey across any job, not just the job in question - Which is why we basically exclude just about everything under 75th. A job's relative strength cannot be accurately measured by those who haven't figured out the bare essentials.