4th job Single Target DPS

I skimmed through most of it. It looks like we just have two different goals when it comes to DPS comparisons. I'm trying to show how strong classes are based on the way the game is set up. I am completely avoiding any ties to the nature of the market in GMS or any other version, or the relative populations of classes. I only intend to compare classes based on the numbers the designers inputted into the game, to compare how they balanced things.

Those are just fine now that you've fixed the attack shield issue, but in your original comparison you tried simultaneously to justify using those bits of ammo and khanjars at the same time as you tried to justify not using an attack shield for warriors. In fact, as I recall it you tried to claim that warriors should just have a normal speed 2h and a 1h without attack shield that cost significantly less than the 2h, and claimed it was because the attack shields "unbalanced" the classes. That's pretty much what I'd call planned crippling of warriors. As it stands your setup for the Hero and Paladin is still probably biased against them - any viable Hero or Paladin comparison would definitely use at the very least a NRW, a Ribgol or a Red Katana + att shield instead of the much weaker (in DPS terms) Dragon weapons (with the sole exception being "with SI"). Optimally they would have a Lunchbox, but that was an event item that most players wouldn't have access to.

Uh, no. The Crossheider has been there from the beginning. We didn't actually have Crossheiders when I first made the comparison, but we do now, so I'm using it. The phys attack table has always shown the 1h weapon users to have more weapon attack than the 2h weapon users.

I believe you're referring to a post where I said I wouldn't use Maple Shields, because they were an event item. That's something I'm still not sure if it's fair to include.