By Odin.Blazza 2010-10-19 02:33:18
My swords are pretty gimp by todays standards, I just haven't gotten around to doing any trials. Having said that, I'm using Machaera (not +1) and second stage DA Antea (strong version), so my melee phase isn't the best, but it's fairly well up there.
Looking over some of my Abyssea parses though, my damage split is about 20/5/75 for melee/ws/spell. I tp in brutal earring and use OAT sword in off-hand, I don't use atma but I do set DA trait, so that puts me at 15% DA, plus my 40% proc rate OAT sword. Regardless of the fact that DA trait doesn't stack with OAT proc rate, that should give me around about 30-35% DA rate spread across both hands. But even still, my melee damage is only a fifth of my total damage in abyssea.
tl,dr; focus on where the majority of your damage lies. Outside of abyssea with only your own refresh to rely on, DA will be more worthwhile, otherwise, focus on your spells.