For me, I just don't want a few people who have long-since given up using their sandbagged parses to suggest there is anything more than a small/medium small difference in T1 scout dps vs T1 mage dps. My initial quote was something along the lines of being concerned that some players (like the OP) were more concerned about venting their frustrations than they were interested in trying to parse as well as possible in the here-and-now.
More pragmatic players, like Serya and Bloodshot (who were Fatality's assassin/ranger respectively from the start of ToV until after we had killed Vulak) have been able to bring predators w/in striking range of Sorcerers. Were they still generally a little short? Yes. But like I said, the true gap between T1 scout dps and T1 mage dps is a lot smaller than some think. In some conditions, our current predators have also been within striking range, but I do think that a very significant part of their difficulties is related to the fact that they overvalued CB/WDB gear at the detriment of getting potency and using reforging to fill in the gaps. As a result, when statflation came, their over-committing to potency-less options manifested itself with lackluster parses due to poor-hitting abilities.
It has always been the case where extremely fast burn fights start to really favor mages who have a long temp spell that takes of a massive portion of the fight. Often, nearing the end of an expansion starts to grossly exaggerate dps gaps as mage temps often makeup half of a named parse. As gear starts reaching an apex, many predators have found themselves stuck with gear that isn't optimal, while fights are shorter, and mages (with the correct gear chosen) are at their prime in both gear allocation and burn times for trivialized content.
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