Seeing Red - A Complete Red Mage Guide

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Too late for napkin math so this may well be garbage:

To estimate the value of ss we need to determine RDM's "base cycle". Let's ignore Manafication, Acceleration and the guaranteed proc from Verholy/flare to make life simple.

Expected length of "ready" proc chain is 1, so on average 1 proc per Jolt2/Impact. This makes the repeating cast pattern J2+VA+VS+VA+Im+VA+VS+VA (obviously mixing WM and BM) for a total of 2250 potency and 76 mana. That means we need 139/76~1.829 patterns per base cycle.

So one base cycle deals 2250*1.839+550+970 potency in 8*1.829 +1 GCDs +5.2s.

On your numbers that would yield 159.173 PPS at base numbers and 159.837 PPS at increased SS for an 0.0083 PPS/SS benefit. Or more straightforwardly, ~187 SS is a 1% increase at the breakpoint (and more at higher SS).

[There are a lot of rounding errors in all of this - just for illustration. Also: not a replacement for a proper simulation.]