Some surprising data in regards to SMN dps vs BLM dps

[pandabearcat]

Okay, then 5 Fire 1's with a 40% (right?) chance of proccing fire is on average 2 fire IIIs.

So the "burn rotation" is then 5 fire 1's, 2 fire 3's, lasting 7 GCDs, or 17.5 seconds.

Then we Blizz 3 (3.5 seconds) and thunder 2 (3.0 seconds), then fire 3 (3.5 seconds) for a full rotation of 27.5 seconds.

Thunder II lasts 21 seconds so 7 ticks for thundercloud. Chance to proc per tick is 5%, so average # of procs during one burn rotation is 0.35 (its harder if we want to predict the actual expected intervals between thunder IIs, but this suffices). We want an absolute minimum average, so we ignore possible additional procs, and say we increase our dps by 1/3 of a thundercloud proc, as well as increase the duration of our "burn rotation" by 1/3 of a GCD, or ~0.83 seconds. At most, a thunder II proc will grant us 3-4 additional ticks of thunder (since we refresh it anyway to allow blizz 3 to tick, correct me on this if i'm wrong), so we add in 3/3 ~ 1 tick to thundercloud proc.

So now we have

1 Fire III - no astral fire, so it does 220 potency
5 Fire I - full astral fire, so it does 150*5*1.8 = 1350
2 Fire III - full astral fire, does 220*2*1.8 = 792 potency
1 Blizz III - no umbral ice, does 220 = 220 potency
1 Thunder II - 50 potency.
7 ticks of thunder II - 35*7 = 245
1/3 proc of thundercloud: 290?/3 = 97
1 "tick" of thundercloud added thunder = 35

Total: 3009 potency over 28.33 seconds, or ~106.21 pps.

Yes that does seem low doesn't it. I did not add in Raging strikes, because i was too lazy to do the analysis over 3 minutes.

Consequently, if we remove raging strikes altogether from the summoner rotation, it does 120.5 pps.

So on the low end of BLM dps, it does 88% of the dps of summoner, or ~13.5% lower dps. Again this is the lowest end BLM dps, with procs it shoots up and down much more. Enough to maybe warrant a buff, but not the 30-50% lower dps that people are claiming with parsers.