Ok. So for the sake of being thorough, and fair, I've asked an orgmate with a good crat to kill an inf dragon dyna so I could parse his dmg. The result, was what I expected, and thus no surprise to me. It confirms the information I've been relaying. This information is no longer in dispute as far as I'm concerned. This is more especially so due to what I'm going relay to you all presently.
This is what I normally run around in. A balance between dmg and evades. A setup which can allow me to OD an enfs taunts with effort, or allow him to tank if I show restraint to some degree. I can achieve 255k dpm with this setup.
Now, my orgmates crat is in an evade setup. I kid you not, an evades setup. A setup with a miy's helm, beast legs, and with some other gear which balances dmg and evades relatively well, no ai armor, with hud being dominately evades oriented. No VTS or other significant dmg huds.
His dpm, 254k.
"Same old mantra about how Shades are damage dealers and should be the top damage dealers in any setup"
So ya. Point made I believe. When's my damage increase coming? Next patch maybe? One can hope.