Is DPS more important than Damage?

[Duke]

Excellent...
so what is this about the skills damage coinciding with or affecting weapon damage??
if there is a short answer can u tell me here, if not maybe you could point me to the thread discussing this.
thanks everyone...I have been here all day and am a better person (*ahem) gamer for it.

Skill damage is calculated based on a few factors: skill ranks, primary attribute (Int for elves, Dex for birds, Str for bears), equipped weapon damage (not DPS, but raw damage), and I think one other thing I'm blanking on. A higher damage weapon will produce more skill damage than a lower damage weapon, even if the DPS of the two are the same.

I have heard rumor that there may be a few weapons that increase skill damage well beyond what the weapon damage would indicate, but I haven't seen it in action myself, and they are the exception, not the rule.