How does one judge trapper dps in PoB? It's fine if you want to compare trap links, but comparing it to the total dps of a self-cast version or entirely different build doesn't seem easy. I guess the biggest thing is I have no idea how many traps I should assume are actively damaging my target.
I assume that's why they don't calculate DPS properly, because traps don't always hit?
Anyway, there was a reddit post about that and with the changes to the tree, you can kinda ignore chain reaction/the unique combo to reduce trap duration, and instead focus on trap activation radius. You can get 170% radius in the tree taking most of the common trap nodes and with a Hair Trigger jewel, that gives you 224% radius, which is enough to trigger at 18units, which supposedly is enough to trigger all your traps even on a single normal size enemy with cluster. Even just a fair amount will generally guarantee 2 traps will proc on a single enemy(like say an exile or whatever). Bosses are fat enough they'll trigger everything anyway.
Even if you get Saboteur's chain reaction, you'll want to get a fair bit of radius, since apparently the chain reaction itself is based off trap radius trigger and will only trigger other traps in the radius of the trap that was triggered. You kinda get trigger radius naturally from the trap nodes on the tree though.
The point of stacking the stat was mostly so you could do a Scion with saboteur+something(elem?) and end up with a potentially stronger damage build, while still triggering traps(so you get various bonuses from uniques that work on triggering, versus the other way that reduces duration which doesn't count as traps triggering).
With the proper setup though against bosses and such, you should trigger all traps every throw, so that should be what you look for as your total DPS. Sometimes a trap will miss, but it isn't much different how sometimes people will miss a skill(unless playing arc or whatever).
