How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Dervy]

and doing either netted about a 40 dps loss by the sim. My only concern is it's a bit higher than the soft cap mentioned in the OP, but I assume it's still within the acceptable range because trying to find stat weights with that value reveals that adding skill speed actually decreases dps.

Yup. Skillspeed is a huge loss after 660 SS. And I believe it was Enil who found an issue with how SimFF handles DoT clipping with the DRG rotation.

Anyway, I've updated OP with a new Skillspeed Damage Mod.

EDIT: Between 652 -> 754ish Skillspeed, you'll be on a deficit for each point of SS to gain