How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Hustensaft]

Shrug! I don't know what the sim does.

Maybe the sim is right and the modelled rotation is wrong?

I don't even get why DoT clipping is so incredible bad - yes, skillspeed causes you to loose DoT ticks, but for the most part it also counters every lost DoT tick via the damage increase (we're looking at -2-3% damage lost for each dot application for each tick). If you go for simplicity as the Tick loss is pretty much neglectable - you're comparing a GCD gain to a potency gain.

If you take the rotation in the OP: 2884.2 potency across 10 GCDs (25 sec) or 288 per GCD.
You now take your GCD down to 2.2727 (== 11 GCDs in 25 sec), you add 288 damage for ~610 SS.

Converting that in DET: 610/7290 = 0.083 = 8.3% increase. (should be less - 610 SS would convert to less DET due to itembudget)

So a 10% DPS increase from SS translates to a DPS increase of less than 8% with DET. Does seem right to me that the sim has SS that strong.