Average BLM DPS T8?

[nugglets]

To continue from above:

The person you are berating is right. Until you get in MORE casts your damage will be lower. So if you have not been casting uninterrupted long enough to have gotten in at least 1 extra cast, your DPS will be lower. As soon as you start recasting it will take you reaching the threshold of time where you are able to get an extra cast before you can start to make up that difference, all while losing ground in the DPS race.

In the above example from the Spreadsheet, it would take you 30 GCD's in order to get to the point where you achieved ONE extra cast. With 582 SSPD (the end of Puro's chart) you would need 22 casts to get in an extra cast. That's uninterrupted casts. The second you stop, this counter resets.