sloshot wrote:
Still, skills like Rapid Killing (clearly meant for high mob value fights) are useless in dummy testing, etc. As I said before, you can only get a 'general feel' for a build, and possibly test incomplete builds. (I didn't mention that previously, it's a toy for the wealthy toon.) If you are 'on the fence' regarding a set of talents and want to baseline compare them, you can if they aren't impacted by the dummies limitations (which I pointed out some of them). If they are, you can only test them in live combat.
So in the end, if you are dummy testing, you need to realize they are not a true combat test of your build and some of the talents that you may have that work against real foes, may not work against the dummies.
That's all I was getting at.
Remember, all we care about is single target boss dps. Everything that could be used in that situation can be used against the dummy. Anything else, we don't care about. So it's worth a lot more then you are implying. It's an invaluable tool to assess mechanics changes, and to test theoretical models.