Need some Tenacity math..

[Deceptus]

This is... wow.. nothing.
So, long story short, Tenacity is still useless at least compared to the other stats and should be avoided like STDs... ^^

Just like Parry was before it (Parry became tenacity).

[DRKoftheAzure]

Alright, before any confusion ends up happening, let's first declare what even qualifies as "Haste".

Haste is the general term for buffs that reduce recast time of GCD actions (Weaponskills, Spells), with Skillspeed -> Physical Haste and Spellspeed -> Magical Haste only.

As you said, various jobs have their own Haste buffs, such as:

- Presence of Mind (WHM)
- Greased Lightning (MNK)
- Shifu (SAM)
- Huton (NIN)
- Army's Paeon (BRD)
- Ley Lines (BLM)

What does not qualify as Haste is "sudo-Haste" via Hypercharge allowing you to use 1.5s recast Weaponskills on MCH or actions that reduce recast timers on off-GCD actions (like Fell Cleave reducing Infuriate by 5s). They do increase the overall tempo of jobs for certain and depending on who you ask, might feel good, but they aren't falling under the actual definition of what Haste is.

Now that all is said and done about Haste...

Skillspeed and Spellspeed aren't dead stats. You still want to have a certain amount of it to adjust your GCD recast timer to either a value that comfortable for you due to latency or that lines up with your job's rotation better. Some jobs even require a minimum amount of skillspeed to be played properly without losses due to game mechanics (like Blood Weapon from DRK needing you to have at least 2.43s GCD recast if not faster to give room for latency and / or jitter to get the 5th MP+Blood tick; I recommend 2.40s).

Which is why I said "technically" for WAR, SMN and MCH, but they are not true haste effects, like MNKs Greased Lightning.


Would true haste effects combined with pseudo-haste effects, make certain jobs more fun and have more flow? More likely yes. Would it make it a bit unbalanced? Yes, without a doubt, but at least it would still be fun than spamming Fell Cleave 5 times in a row, which MCH has their own variant of Fell Cleave which, isn't completely broken because you can only use it up to 5 times and makes their charges come back faster than WAR.

[DRKoftheAzure]

That's the point. I got to admit that I'm not into savage and ultimate content so it's not that of a problem if a few points go wasted. But still, I like to improve my stats in a useful way.



Hmm, those Numbers are quite interesting. Consindering that as a Tank survivability should be top priority, not dps. Still, due to gear options I currently have I will invest some Phantasmagoria to get some Crit/Det. back and reduce Ten. back to where it was before (like 1200-1400ish).

Thank you for your answers.

Tenacity doesn't really shine by itself, but with Crit. Hit, Direct Hit Rate, and Determination, because that is when you see the most DPS gain on tanks.

[Niyuka]

Tank survivability is not meaningfully affected by Tenacity in the only environment where these considerations (or materia melding in general) matter, which is Savage and Ultimate content (and newly released EX primals for the first few days MAYBE). In these environments, what matters is whether you can save your healer from using a GCD on you, so they can do damage or group heal instead. No realistic amount of tenacity is going to change that right now, because all damage on the tank is either HUGE, massive tankbusters that require cooldowns (which are available at that point in time, as fights are obviously designed with a specific cooldown timing in mind), or it is part of a mechanic multiple people get hit by, and thus needs a group heal anyway.

Auto attacks and other fluff damage on tanks can easily be healed by fairy, OCDs or other tools, and Tenacity doesnt matter there.

[ArianeEwah]

Just like Parry was before it (Parry became tenacity).

Parry was way, way worse than tenacity. Parry didn't do anything for damage increase (well, except on DRK, but even that was about 0.1% or less), was useless on crit hits, blocked or magical attacks, and was fully rng-based, similar and worse to crit. Crit at least increases your damage done + rate, parry just increased the rate, and iirc parry also scaled worse than crit.

Tenacity affects all incoming damage, as well as increases your damage equal to 67% of determination.

Yeah, you want to avoid getting tenacity for dps purpose. Heck, even the recent world first and second on Alex Ultimate didn't meld tenacity or prefered tenacity gear. Yet, it's still far from useless. And even a tank focusing on tenacity isn't much of a burden to the party, their damage 'loss' is mostly neglectable. Parry on the other hand... is like playing tank for the most basic tanks' sake (<- don't do this!)

edit: Skill/spell speed is in a strange position. It is indeed better getting a certain tier from it, so it'll end up being an increase. (Or so it seems)

Yet, it doesn't increase your ability damage or recast time, it only affects your GCD actions, (dots from abilities) and auto attacks, and the later is pretty much useless for casters with the exception of SMN 'cause of their pets (correct me if I am wrong here).

And because of that reason will end up being more of a loss than an increase in most cases. Jobs that benefit from it more are SAM and MNK with Haste buffs, but even then it only goes for certain tier and more of it end up being overkill, useless or rightout even a loss by screwing up the rotation and buff windows. E.g. SAM doesn't want any GCD faster than 2.0s.

I would argue that SkS/SpS is even worse than tenacity. Someone on balance discord created a slow GNB build that is on par, or better than your average 2.4s GCD build, despite the fact that the 9th GCD in No Mercy window wouldn't be buffed. And it works because you don't clip your oGCDs, and your abilities are way more buffed by increased det/crit/ten value due to decreased SkS value.