Many Savage PFs are barring PLD and WAR, anyone know what's going on?

[Lyth]

I don't really agree with that approach. rdps is the fairest comparison for all jobs because it credits all damage done under buffs to the owner of that buff. For tanks, that means that you're looking at their own, unaltered personal dps (ndps).

adps tries to be clever and cherry pick buffs to try to be representative of the pre-Stormblood/early Stormblood standard while trying to exclude ones that are vulnerable to targeted padding, like dance partner, DRG Eye, and AST cards. But it still allows for buff padding nonetheless based off your party composition, just like in the old days.

If you're trying to maximize your adps, you theoretically should be running without any other selfish jobs, like SAM and BLM, and fill all those slots with buff providers. But that's actually counterintuitive to how we actually play when trying to kill bosses faster. The real value of adps is in doing a personal comparison of yourself with yourself under similar conditions to see how well you're lining up with buff windows. But it's not a great approach for doing comparisons of job performances on a grand scale, which is where rdps really shines.

The metric that really matters at the end of the day is your boss kill time. And that depends on your raid's total rdps.