I'm really confused about where this discussion about 'burst-focused jobs' is coming from. I think part of the problem is that people are automatically assuming that aDPS means burst. The correlation is much more tenuous than that.



Here are two jobs on polar opposite ends of burst vs. continuous damage. Both have roughly the same aDPS and rDPS in the same run (give or take a couple hundred rDPS/aDPS). But there are some obvious differences in burst vs. consistent damage. If you want to assess how much burst a job has, look at its peak DPS under burst. Don't look for surrogate measures. You can evaluate this directly.

You can argue that all jobs have some degree of burst, given the existence of two minute raidbuffs. Double Reawaken is flashy, but the bulk of VPR's damage comes from persistently maintaining uptime.