How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Dervy]

Which value? Do you specifically mean the -1.5? That's a value to counteract two things:

1) Potency doesn't scale at the value of the tooltip. My theory is that Each Point of Potency is actually a 0.01005 multiplier of damage, rather than it being Potency/100. So if a skill is 360 Potency, instead of it being a 3.6 multiplier, it's actually a 3.618 multiplier.
2) To accommodate for Rounding Error Values until I have enough data. So far, those damage models are the most accurate I've ever gotten them to be.

It was Viridiana's idea to convert it back to Potency/100, then resolve for the final value, otherwise, it would be (Potency*0.01005), and -1 at the end.

The Weapon Skill formulae is the Raw Damage at X Potency. If you wanted to calculate your DPS, instead of using the Potency of a skill, you would use the Potency Per Second (PPS) value of your rotation.

Auto-Attacks are the same. If you wanted to calculate DPS of Auto-Attacks, you'd use that formulae. If you wanted to calculate the raw damage per Auto-Attack, you would remove the (1/AA_DELAY).

If you're asking about the Division Coefficients, those are just scalers. Instead of multiplying it by a Decimal, you can inverse the operation by dividing it by a whole number.

[lootbox]

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Gotcha. Here's what I came up with:

Say a non-critical hit deals D damage (substitute in your formula for weaponskill, auto-attack, or DoT damage), and c = crit - 354. Then:

Expected Damage = D * non-crit chance + D * crit chance * crit damage multiplier
Expected Damage = D * (1 - crit chance) + D * crit chance * crit damage multiplier

crit chance = 0.000233 * c + 0.049511233
crit damage multiplier = 0.000233 * c + 1.4493610

...wolfram alpha magic...

Expected Damage = (5.4289e-8 * c^2 + 0.000116237 * c + 1.02225) * D

Take the derivative with respect to c:
(1.08578e-7 * c + 0.000116237) * D

This gives a formula for how much we should expect damage to increase for each additional point of crit, given the current crit value (where, again, c = crit - 354). At higher values of crit, each additional point increases damage by more.

I don't know if this is useful at all to you but I was bored at work and figured I'd share.

EDIT: I think WA did some weird rounding first time through.
Updated formula which includes critical chance buff here.