Does the prime weapon have it's 13% occasionally deal triple damage included in it's dps calculations? And does using the prime with Imputus wearing 4/5 Mpaca, Lekho's ring, and Odr Earring for a 98% crit rate not help push it's parse up?
It was included, but your post made me double check and there was an error in weapon naming I had "PrimeS5 " instead of "PrimeS5" and that space broke the condition for triple damage proc (using Left() would be better, but oh well). So after fixing it, Prime is indeed ahead of Veret and would be around 15500 DPS instead of 14900. You can actually push both Veret and Prime around 250dps higher using AF+3 feet, but that's a significant meva drop to already low meva TP set anyway, so I'm not a fan of that.
It's 30% proc rate on TA on stage 5 prime, not 13% btw.
EDIT: I forgot to wrote, that 4/5 Mpaca is simply not the best idea. Bhikku+3 legs/hands are better. I also don't include Lehko's, because it's only break even for Niq or Gere, not to mention I wouldn't even pick this ring for MNK.
When attack is overcapped and footwork is not up, shouldn't raging fists be better than howling?
I mean I seem to recall this but it's been so long since I tested I could be completely wrong.
If someone has more reliable data to enlighten me I'd apreciate!
Not really, Tornado Kick is better, even without Footwork.
EDIT: Sheet is showing slightly higher DPS for Raging, even while Raging having slightly lower WS damage. Hmmm, I guess it might be a matter of additional hits lowering the time you need to reach 1000TP, but I think sheet is overrating this fact.
EDIT2: I noticed bis vsmite set has lots of PDL (especially that I use Ephramad's for it and assume Aria). Even higher for Prime, since Im assuming AM3. Slightly surprisingly Fotia Gorget started to beat Jse+2. There are also few swaps not reducing damage by a lot. If you have R30 Nyame legs, they are not that much worse than mpaca's. Ryuo +1 A gloves would be another swap to reduce PDL and amount of attack needed to reach full potential.