How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

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I did some math and in-field testing on the best in slot builds provided at the bottom of the original guide and have concluded, based on the (perhaps outdated?) provided Dragoon damage models, that Dervy's Best-in-Slot configurations is almost certainly not optimal.

To perform the comparison, I checked FFXIVGuild's provided BiS gear and found that the skill speed difference and accuracy differences were negligible (2 Skill Speed and 45 Accuracy in favor of FFXIVGuild's build). The big difference is in 116 CRIT vs 156 DET, and the difference based on the given CRIT and DET values comes out to ~4.4% extra damage in favor CRIT, which indicates to me that CRIT is grossly more powerful than DET point for point.

This also leads me to believe that Ariyala's build also cannot be BiS as it is down Crit and Skill Speed for DET (61 Crit and 27 Skill Speed vs 126 DET). I performed the same comparison with FFXIVGuild's BiS slot, while making the assumption the Skill Speed difference of 27 would not affect DPS (I highly doubt that). The difference finds that even ignoring Skill Speed, the FFXIVGuild BiS build deals ~2.1% more damage based on the current model.

Jack's build is one that I can't decide on. The difference is 30 Crit vs 29 DET and 44 Skill Speed (solely the Gordian Wristband of Slaying vs the Fabled Bracelet of Slaying). Of course the Crit beats out the DET but I am not sure on the Skill Speed. In any case, of the listed BiS load outs, Jack's is the best, with the exception of the Gordian Wristband being potentially interchangeable with the Fabled Bracelet.