Adps vs Rdps. Which one to go by?

[dspguy]

Funny that people can openly discuss these topics and fflogs on the official forums even though parsers are supposedly against the TOS.

[Semirhage]

99th percentile is unhelpful for a number of reasons. A lot of it (especially this expansion) is crit RNG, due to how damage is so compacted into 2 minute bursts with high potency hits. There's also the problem with feeding- usually when someone's that high, it's because they want to be. So the run was catered to them. Uptime may have been bent around that person. Strategies may have been tweaked to make sure that one player had as much padding as possible. If it's a buff-dispenser job, you can ensure the rest of the party is high personal damage so their percentage buffs have magnified output, increasing that player's rDPS.

Now, looking at the specific actions that person did during their run is definitely helpful if you're looking for optimization tips. But if you go in expecting to get above purple or low orange on that alone, you're not gonna have a good time.

[Semirhage]

rDPS is not just the amount of raid buffs a job provides. It also includes their own personal raw contributions (nDPS).

If this was the case BRD or DNC would be at the top of the rDPS charts, yet they are not.

Yes I'm aware that rDPS isn't buffs alone. I meant that if a job both dishes out and makes strong use of incoming buffs, that may be a balancing red flag. If it doesn't play well in the dishing out or receiving game, that may also be a red flag.

(We also split them into relative categories by subrole to sidestep the arbitrary meleewalker > BLM >> other casters > ranged hierarchy.)

[Shiroe]

wait, thought Rdps is your personal DPS + the DPS your buffs bring to the party (and Adps is just your pure dps, without any buffs)

[Valence]

wait, thought Rdps is your personal DPS + the DPS your buffs bring to the party (and Adps is just your pure dps, without any buffs)

rDPS is your personal DPS + the DPS you provide to the party - the DPS you gain from others

aDPS shares the same base: your personal DPS + the DPS you gain from others (except solo buffs like cards to prevent padding, with the exception of dancer partner buffs that are accounted for). aDPS is essentially identical from what you'd get from a piece of software that makes yoshi sad, minus the solo buffs like cards (thus why it was called adjusted dps... I know, the names are really bad).

Your DPS shaved off any buffs (doesn't account what you receive, doesn't account for what you provide), is nDPS.