Arsenal DPS spreadsheet

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(02-24-2012 03:46 AM)Qed Wrote:  As such, increasing alacrity, for him, increases the 'damage per second' of Grav Round, but does not decrease the 'fraction of each second casting grav round' to compensate.

That could very well be a cause. My sheet calculates RFT allocation for Tracer Missile in what in v1.5 is CalcsV2!B222 and number of uses two lines below that.
Generally, it could be a good idea to make an analysis of how various stats affect dps and write it down for everyone to read. Naturally, some of it will be obvious (this isn't rocket science) but given the misunderstandings being thrown around Reddit/swtor and whatnot, it would definitely have some value.

Another potential (!) source may be the way time for Rapid Shots is determined. My sheet models Rapid Shot usage as a cycle where you cast Rail Shot, HSM, Unload and Tracer Missile ones per 15 seconds and fill out the remaining globals with Rapid Shots. This cycle is used just enough to stay heat neutral i.e. keep heat from building up. This implementation gets around the issue of the Ability Queue (possibly) not recognizing hastened activation times when alternating betwen Rapid Shots and Tracer Missile, but I'll leave it unsaid how it compares to actual gameplay. Most importantly though, it reflects the impact using Rapid Shots has on various procs.
I'm still trying to make out how Firingrate's balances heat usage for comparison purposes.

On a sidenote: I definitely agree with your statement that Alacrity shouldn't increase the number of Tracer Missiles cast per minute. When increasing alacrity in my sheet I see number of Tracers per minute decreasing ever so slightly while Unload increases - an effect which I interpret as Alacrity increasing the uptime of the Rapid Shots cycle where Unload is used 1 : 1 with Tracer Missile rather than 1 : (1/0.3).