Quote Originally Posted by Lyth View Post
The aDPS values are not normalized relative to the number of two-minute buffs in each individual run. You'd need to go back and look at it in a per run basis from scratch.
I got the values from FFlogs over all current savage raids over the last 2 months, that is between 28,000 parses for PLD and 48,000 parses for DRK, being the 2 extremes on parses uploaded, GNB and WAR are between them. The mean of each job is then calculated. For what we are trying to achieve here, this is more than enough to average out any difference in party composition or whether they got another 2 minute raid buff in or not. If I were to go back and evaluate each and every individual parse and subsequently find the mean, I would find the exact same results.

However, despite all this, it wouldn't change the fact that rDPS is still not the end all be all for how to balance a job. Again, it just doesn't show the whole story and can be misleading, which is why other DPS metrics exist. No one metric is perfect, noone is claiming that they are, however, it also means you cannot base balance around one specific metric.