Originally Posted by
Noxina
I am pretty sure you're trolling, but I'll keep on biting.
Take a stroll over to Fight Club, Classic Warrior discord server. There is a TON of theorycrafting and simming going on, same with every class discord. Do provide a a screenshot of some top parses that claims he/she never simmed his/her gear to get there though. By that, the person can't use ANY information out there, since it's all from simulations and theorycrafting, the person MUST have figured out by him/her self that gearing that certain way with that certain talent build would perform best.
We're talking thousand of fights to get enough data to safely determine that X gear set with Y talents would outperform C gear with V talents. Which is why we toss the numbers into a spreadsheet that does exactly that for us, in a couple of seconds instead of months of raiding.
That said, there is however some factors a sim can't really handle too well, like Firemaw where you have to go out to reset stats. Suddenly T1 rogue set which provides 10 more energy gains more value than a fight where you just stand and nuke (Vael for instance). These unique factors goes under experience of the fight, instead of a paper with numbers on it, and is a whole other story.