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Awesome list. It's definately useful.
My only complaint though is that a few of the chains are flawed. I didn't look through all of them, as most were fine.
But, for instance, removing Chop from BA, under the exact same conditions, provides a DPS of 190.40.
Also giving claws a chain of FU->Slash->Evisc->Focus provides a DPS of 203.04
And unless I just absolutely suck at excel, I'm using the same spreadsheet you provided. But this is just a slight suggestion to personally ensure each chain is as effective as possible, and thus nothing is ranked incorrectly because someone submitted a crappy chain.
Also, not sure if someone else pointed it out (tl;dr flamewar) but the damage of Sweeping Strike on the speadsheet is 1.7. But according to City of Data, it's 1.92. After changing the info, it changes the DPS from 168.30 to 176.62 for brutes. Doesnt sound like much but that enables it to pass quite a few other sets. And out of curiosity, How much of a difference would a DB chain of BF->AS->VS->SS+attack vitals make on it's DPS? The DPS itself drops fairly dramatically, but I can't find the values of the attack vital damage ticks which may or may not increase its DPS without the combo.