Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[SunnyHirose]

I can't count how much times I got to explain someone how to analyse his/her performance despite the EncDPS showed at miniparse.

And what I'm telling you is that EncDPS and damage done are equally flawed metrics for the exact same reasons, because they are the same ratio between raid members. The person who you say is carried on mechanics will do more "damage done" as well as EncDPS; they are getting the privilege of doing more "damage done" out of a finite amount of damage there is to do.

Neither number is reasonably comparable between different raids doing different things.

("my friend" does not even have the encounter reset time lengthened over the default; my group does not speed run, so diagnostics on demand are much more pertinent than numbers for mirin' as far as I'm concerned. I make an effort to never claim a DPS number in anything but controlled, disclosed, and hopefully replicable conditions.)

The good players will often hide their CD usage and specific tricks because they think it's mundane to post such basic information, or would rather hide it because they don't want to get copied.

I don't disagree that there isn't enough discussion on fight-specific stuff (like an old post explaining a rotation for AK trash packs or EMX's post on how to double DoT in Levi EX), but historically, most of the people who thought they had anything to hide about their super sekrit rotation turned out to be full of hot air anyway, and anything that's been worth sharing has been so sparse it gets buried under nonsense

[enil]

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Obviously - all statistics need to be taken in context and more data is always a good thing if you want to do comparisons (crit rate, damage breakdown, fight length, party members, RNG mechanics etc.)
encDPS is not perfect but provides a simple "at a glance" number for comparison, there isn't really any other better stat for it, it's perfectly valid to compare raids doing different things -obviously if your raid plays it safe it will be less, you are sacrificing kill speed/dps for safety. How much potential dps are we losing because of this strat? Is it worth it? Does this strategy mean we do more dps or not?

encDPS only measures encDPS, nothing else, don't try to take away more from it then what it is.