The Black Mage Rotations

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Stat weights have no bearing on the actual DPS of the rotations. That's why we're doing the calculations in Potency per second, because it's gear agnostic. Better gear will do more damage, but they both will place the same since the PPS is the same.

Its not stat weights, its the effect of your skill choice on your average damage. The higher your average damage, the higher the damage bonus you get from your criticals on average. When you're using nothing but fire3/flare/blizz3, your average damage skyrockets, because you're not spending time hitting mobs for 450-600 blizzard2 or fire2s, you're just flaring. All your calculations don't take this into account.

tl;dr - Crits mean more for flares than they do for blizzard/fire2s. The PPS should reflect that.