A DPS Simulator 2 - SimFF

[Kenji1134]

There is a rich selection of i70-i130 gear!

Before HW, I isolated DET at a few levels of AP and at 58 WD. I found it to be pretty dang linear. Many others have said that AP and WD are the same way in isolation but I never got around to trying it out.

By all means if you can run some setups to isolate stat variations then please feel free to do so.

The key things is gathering the data in a controlled manner. So ideally you'd want to use a strong ability to reduce rounding error, and always make sure that the additional effects acting on that ability are the same throughout, even if that means not using any at all.
As far as sample size, I have found that roughly 50-60 non-crit samples under the same conditions is enough to reduce the (standard deviation)/(max damage) to under 3%, which I would say is good enough. About 100 samples with larger damage numbers drives it to just about 2.5%, which I think is the minimum, since there is a natural +-5% swing on damaging abilities which (I assume) follows a Gaussian distribution.
Then the average of that data needs to be divided by the tooltip potency, as well as all passive buffs/traits, again like Heavy Thrust, Deliverance, Maim and Mend, Hot Shot, etc. This allows us to come down to a unified metric, the amount that your stats combined into a single value influence your baseline "potency".