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Obviously. That's why I originally filtered just those abilities against only boss damage in an attempt to remove the other factors, like who spent more time healing etc. The claim in question wasn't which talent allowed you to do X other thing, it was which one did more damage to the boss. It's was just to measure the talents themselves on the most important targets (bosses) in the most accurate possible, regardless of any other actions. I wasn't trying to measure overall damage done until you suggested it. As a talent, CT did more damage to bosses. As we saw when we tried to do it, there's not enough top level parses of people going HAM with both talents to say that Xeun is significantly better at providing boss damage on this encounter.
I just realized that 3/4 of those logs were using 4 healers so the overall damage comparison was even more flawed, due to one of the Xuen users needing to drop out to heal. I noticed that you're also using 4, are you really finding the 4th to be necessary? We managed our first with only 3 healers and it never felt like a struggle. The last 2 weeks of healing it were rough, but our hpally was on vacation and we did it with a disc, hpriest, druid.
I suspect that the Xuen usage is simply for a bit of added DPS while still needing to Serpent for a larger percentage of the fight. He does give you that fire and forget freedom for a bit of extra damage.