Thanks for this post. It has crystalized in my mind what I have been theorizing for a while now. SS is a bit of a sham. Its getting paid twice as much for double the work. In the end it doesn't really add anything. Unless its a really short encounter.

Considering this. I believe the optimal SS is one that allows you to fit in all your DoTs to the point where your next Demolish comes right after the debuff drops from the mob. Any more and you overwrite and lose dps. I don't know what that magic number is, but its pretty low I think like 440ish.

From that point it would make sense to stack crit and det which give damage boosts for free since they spend the same amount of TP resource.