How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Viridiana]

With Disembowel factored out but Heavy Thrust applied to both, that puts physical hits at around 3.45843461 dpp and Chaos Thrust ticks at around 3.52857143. That's about 2.028% buff to DoTs for about 2.88% boost to direct GCD damage. And while that's more than before, uh... it doesn't quite appear to take SS-induced clipping penalties out of the game, now, does it ._.

Eh, more of a boost than you're accounting for. Recall that there's a subtraction that happens after the potency multiplier (or at least there was in 2.5). This means that your CT ticks should have started out (in a 0 SS build) at less than 35/250 of your CT hits, even after factoring out Disembowel. In 2.5, seeing your Disembowel numbers, I would have pegged CT ticks as being about 113 minimum damage to about 125 maximum. If you manage to get the same STR/DET/WD with 0 SS, those are the numbers I would call even now. So I would say it's more like a 3% or 4% boost.

[SunnyHirose]

Eh, more of a boost than you're accounting for. Recall that there's a subtraction that happens after the potency multiplier (or at least there was in 2.5). This means that your CT ticks should have started out (in a 0 SS build) at less than 35/250 of your CT hits, even after factoring out Disembowel.

I must confess I didn't investigate that very closely. Nonetheless, I still have my old stuff kicking around to test a 0 SS build...