Quote Originally Posted by Eriane_Elis View Post
I forgot what they are called but there's those training zones where you have to kill the special training dummy within the time limit. I believe a new one will be available next week unless I'm mistaken. If you pass that, you pass the DPS check.
SSS or "Stone Sea Sky".

Yes, it technically exists, but has many many problems.

Lower DPS jobs will struggle to clear SSS but can do the encounters fine. For example, in ShB, a very good bard player would have trouble clearing SSS while even a bad summoner player could easily clear it. So you might have players on lower DPS jobs thinking they're not good enough if they only have SSS as a touchstone, when in reality they might be in the best 20% or 10% of players of their job. Conversely, a terrible summoner (or these days, a reaper; RIP summoner) might think they're hot stuff because they can easily clear SSS, but in a proper raid they hold a team back.

The other problem is that DPS in a "striking dummy" scenario - no mechanics to worry about, no boss jumps, etc - doesn't reflect the pragmatic reality of raids, especially when there are extra DPS check phases like adds or a "break the shield" mechanics or so on. Aligning to raid buffs also makes a big difference, but obviously isn't reflected when solo.