Quote Originally Posted by Hakmatic View Post
How do you think you get a DPS number? From damage done. So dont say that dont matter cause its actually the most mportant number. Now for a parse, no i dont include a minute of downtime in my parse to check dps, i dont know anyone other than you guys here that chck dps ike that. My parse does incluse downtime just not ever single moment of downtime. Now if i add the downtime and i do the math i still come out with a higher dps number than what the guy before said i could achieve and thats where this started. So get off my fucking nuts.
Not stepping on your nuts, just a neutral analysis of your parse.

345 DPS on T9 over 10:50 clear time (time taken from end of duration of dragons to start time of encounter), is above average. Kudos to you on that. That said, there's a lot that your other raid members can improve on:

Your bard seems not as geared to the teeth as you. He's pulling the least downtime amongst all of you, he's dealing less damage than you.
Your summoner is not effectively using ruin 2 while moving/ruin 1, too much downtime watching things.
Your blackmage is actually doing decent for such a heavy movement turn.

That said, let's get back to your parse.

My best guess of possible downtime that are not included in your parse:

P1: Iron Chariots (May or may not be excluded depending on whether you jump after the boss), double meteor streams (way more than 6 seconds)
P2: First Green Meteor Placing, Second set of Meteors, Second Green Meteor Placing
P3: Movement away from Ghost on Ghost death, movement to clear Garote Twist
P4: Fire 3, Iron Chariot, Supernovas 1 & 2 (X3), Divebomb placement

Which explains the difference in each DPS and MT, OT durations (BLM having the most down time, followed by you the melee, then summoner, and bard having the least down time)

In any case, it's 2 different measurements. Place your meter to recognise inactivity over 30 seconds if you want to capture the whole duration of the fight or set it at probably 6 seconds to capture exact activity timings.

In any case things could have been better if people understood that there's a difference from both measurements and state their DPS figures according to which measurement. Or for the matter of the point I'm going to bring up below, try not to bring up DPS to support your point in discussions but rather provide logical qualitative reasoning.

That's because DPS figures is a double edged sword.

It has its positive uses in telling you quantitatively that you can do better or you are doing something wrong, because you are not hitting a certain mark, or that a certain rotation is better than the other, but it is up to the individual to figure out qualitatively what went wrong. Eg. am i wasting too much time doing nothing, could I have approached a certain boss mechanic better, am I clipping too much or forgetting to rebuff my buffs.

It can also backfire on you and create easily situations like what happened over the last few pages: E-peen, impression of "I'm better than you" although at the heart of the argument Hak was just saying that from his experience DRG can do better than what others have experienced. Instead of leading to discussion of how did you do it differently, it became a "fake" calling exorcism. This is also the stuck up reason SE refuses to incorporate a DPS meter into the game system itself and has explicitly disapprove the use of external DPS meters. * Note that some people have been banned on forums before for posting about DPS figures and programmes. *

End of the day guys, it's not the guy who pulls 500 DPS from initial burst for 30 seconds and then AFKs, thus winning the parser fight, that downs T9. It's still how do you deal with boss mechanics and DPS checks that matter. Keep the discussion real and qualitative and we can all improve together.