This may be hard to explain for me but ill try and say it as plainly as i can.
If two sets have the same exact DPS but one set has a ton of multi-hit equipment and the other is dominantly atk / str / dex / crit rate based. Could it be said that the 2nd set is better in a parse over a long period of time on say, EXP monsters or nyzul climbs since it may take 8 HIts on first dps set to reach its full dps but the monster only lived for 5 hits before it died. Where as the the 2nd set capped dps at (for example) 3 hits to get its average dps and it always succeeded to get 3 hits because it did not over kill the monster by relying on multiattacks ? (I'm not Pchan! ._. )