DS doesn't completely own AB.
AB does more dmg than DS 55.2% of the time.
However, DS does more dmg overall.
I recomend DS.
snipe is OVER RATED!!!! if the cooldown is like 7.5 seconds, it would be good. why? at level 150, when you are comfortably in 4th job, the average strafe would do about 30k damage! sniping essentially kills something in 1 hit. the highest hp mob is onli 80k!
so sniping is like giving you 2 extra strafes every 15 seconds. big deal yea.
DS doesn't completely own AB.
AB does more dmg than DS 55.2% of the time.
However, DS does more dmg overall.
I recomend DS.
In addition to the goby house damage reducing ability, SB and DS are not the same skill, def might be applied to SB six times, but only twice to DS. Let's ask Kygre. You said AB does more than DS 55.2% of the time, which means overall, it does more, and yet you said DS does more overall. If it was really 55.2%, it would be the other way around. Where did you get the number 55.2% from anyway?
P.S. Snipe sounds less interesting now, but what about pierce? 850% dmg sounds good and it charges quickly, plus they can still freeze.
NOTE: I won't pluck figures with decimals from nowhere