Quote Originally Posted by Sylve View Post
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And I feel like you're underestimating just how much auto attacks do contribute to our overall dps. If you don't think reddit parsers are "proof" enough when they're straight up numbers, what would you even accept then? If I went out and auto attack a dummy right now, it's hitting for 300s on average. My Split shot hits for 550 on average, 660-680 with GB. Per GCD, thats a damage loss on each split shot.
Gauss would hit a little bit around 930 every 20 seconds, or 8 GCds. That's roughly 116 damage for that GCD spread over 20 seconds. 850 > 776-788

Granted this is just me taking raw numbers from my auto attacks and skilling then breaking it down by GCD, so I'm sure there something fundamentally wrong with looking at damage dealt from that perspective. But this is also my perspective from doing dungeons and bismark EX in general. I do more damage overall by using my GB exclusively for bursting and not keeping it on, nor should I get used to it becase they'll probably fix the rapid fire bug eventually.