How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[SunnyHirose]

Question: If we have a set with about 550 SS, don't the drawbacks go beyond the loss of 2-Geirskoguls-per-BFB? Won't we also run the risk of tiny pockets of Heavy Thrust downtime (which could cost us auto-attack damage) and/or lost Phlebotomize ticks? The windows of downtime are extremely small, but they're there.

My current model accounts for this downtime with the probabilistic penalty to autos. Same deal with DoT ticks being clipped or falling off. I use no correction for Fey Wind one way or another, or for Geirskogul for that matter.

Basically, the DPS potentially lost from not clipping HT/Phlebotomize is outweighed by the gains in CT uptime and Crit/Det. Fey Wind should bring Geirskogul in line with expectations (particularly because it's front-loaded) and will re-clip your stuff half the time anyway.