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^ All you need.
Not all fights have the capacity for rank-whoring, nor do all ranking players do so to achieve said ranks. A skilled wol reader can determine which players are padding and which ones are legitimately handling the mechanics (and there are many methods to determine this, the expression editor is a great tool for this).
Many times WoL can help a struggling player find out where they are going wrong by comparing up-time, tracking cd usage, and comparing talent choices. Should someone blindly follow talent choices of a top parsing player, no! However this is a great resource for comparing/contrasting oneself to some of the best players out there.
Method does in-fact hold many top 100 parses on many fights. All you have to do is go to any fight in Tier 14, check US & EU only and look at first 1-2 pages of all classes and you will see several top 1-200 ranked players in various specs/classes from Method (as well as Blood Legion, Duality, etc).
To not quote a wall of text now, I'll just say that I do indeed agree with errything you said, but was just trying to prove a point, as I don't think everyone here is a "skilled WoL reader", such as you and I may be.
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