I was wondering, why does people count dps instead of total potency?

[Fannah]

No offense, but my title is so great you all seem to skip the posts and only answer to my title x)

On a SSS dummy, for exemple, timer can be easily taken in count.

I agree about the skill speed etc counting and changing a lot. But I also do remember I talked about potency per second too (look for "potency per second" in the previous page with ctrl+F)

And I talked about the equipment, I talked about why I even talked about the topic all along it :
--> People talk about balance on one single data brought by someone in monotarget dps under perfect conditions (not moving target, no invincibility/untargetable phases, no attack to dodge).
--> People post their score as they may have been just more lucky about crits than another one (number of crits + on what skill) making them looking better than tif they made the exact same gameplay but with less crits or on worse skills.
--> People could know if their rotation is technically better, which won't change because they have better gears or not.

Just once again to be sure, I do think DPS in important, you all seems to think I'm saying it's not.