How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

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Also... everything you say about your opener makes sense to me, which I find strange because I thought dervy/thendiel modeled the opener to have the biggest pps benefit. Seems to me like yours would be better.

the most common opener (ht bl bfb) etc wasn't fully designed by either, or for the reason of pps

as far as comparing openers go, the original was made with 2.39-2.40 gcd in mind.

with that gcd (around 600 sksp), ht (ir bl) -> dis (bfb botd) id (botd bfb), ir wears off before vorpal and geirskogul. in exchange you gain bfb on ht instead of disembowel (8-9 potency gain) and litany on 4th hit. in a dummy situation at 2.39-2.40 gcd as well, the 2nd bfb will start earliest on on true thrust instead of a phleb, ending on a 4th hit instead of CT

then for comparing PS->LSW, this only matters if doing LSW->PS would let you get LS off a GCD earlier and keep it that way in the long term. i found that it isn't the case; and that having PS closer to the cds of LS/BoTD was nice compared to something that i felt wasn't tangible (having LSW off cd 0.5s earlier)

it's pretty minor either way though. im always gonna root for ht->litany because it means as a machinist, my lead shot is guaranteed to be buffed, huhuhu~