Can someone explain weapon stats?

Such as weapon damage/magic damage, auto-attack, delay, etc.

I've looked this up but all I've found were old threads still speculating on what all this means.

I'm particularly interested as to why, for a given ilvl, ranged weapons (BRD/MCH) are some 4-6 (can't recall atm) weapon damage lower than the other melee classes.

Honestly, it's very self explanatory. Weapon attack is the attack value of the weapon and if it says magic damage then it effects spells rather than physical attacks. Auto-attack is damage that your auto-attack does and delay is the time between auto-attacks. Very basic.

When it comes to BRD and MCH weapons being lower damage, that is slightly more involved. To put it simply, the devs believe that BRDs (there were no MCHs when this change was made) are able to output damage while being more mobile and offering more raid utility than other jobs made them a bit too good. As a trade off they lowered their weapon damage to balance them out.

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Originally Posted by Gokuhan

Honestly, it's very self explanatory. Weapon attack is the attack value of the weapon and if it says magic damage then it effects spells rather than physical attacks. Auto-attack is damage that your auto-attack does and delay is the time between auto-attacks. Very basic.

When it comes to BRD and MCH weapons being lower damage, that is slightly more involved. To put it simply, the devs believe that BRDs (there were no MCHs when this change was made) are able to output damage while being more mobile and offering more raid utility than other jobs made them a bit too good. As a trade off they lowered their weapon damage to balance them out.

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Yeah, but it's funny how people still expected BRD to do a huge chunk of high damage with Paeon or Ballad up back then.

I wouldn't mind a decent explanation on Skill Speed considering nearly every piece of equipment in a Dragoon's armory has a shit tone of skill speed.

Is it's only purpose to speed up oGCD skills charge rate?

More importantly what's the cut off for it's use. Like SkS points to charge time.

If it doesn't help a DRG over all then there is really no point in SkS > Det/Crit on gear.

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Originally Posted by Ninster

Such as weapon damage/magic damage, auto-attack, delay, etc.

I've looked this up but all I've found were old threads still speculating on what all this means.

I'm particularly interested as to why, for a given ilvl, ranged weapons (BRD/MCH) are some 4-6 (can't recall atm) weapon damage lower than the other melee classes.

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Some reading, the reason there's not a lot of info is the main prominent people who figured this stuff out got banned from OF.
https://dervyxiv.wordpress.com/
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...A-DPS-Paradigm

Rule of thumb is Weapon Damage = x10 Main stat = 10x secondary stats. That said, it does vary by job and secondary stat. Dervy's blog above is a great tool for a few of the jobs and to give you a good idea of how it works. Just remember if you hold back on a weapon with 2 less WD because it has CRIT instead of Skill Speed, you are effectively losing out on the equivalent of 200 CRIT.

So even though the secondary stats are still Crit>DET>SkS for DRG loosing weapon damage (and by extension STR) is actually Cheating me worse. Good to know. I'll still enjoy it when I have the gear to put Crit and Det bother over 600 with out using lesser items. (Still got my 190 Alex NM ring till I can .make a Crafted one)

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Originally Posted by Kaiser-Ace

So even though the secondary stats are still Crit>DET>SkS for DRG loosing weapon damage (and by extension STR) is actually Cheating me worse.

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That's it exactly, weapon damage trumps all. As far as Skill Speed is concerned, it's main purpose has always been to lower the OCD, however it's usefulness has always been up in the air and it can cause people to easily run out of TP during long fights, so in a recent patch it was changed to also give a slight boost DoT damage.

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Originally Posted by Kaiser-Ace

I wouldn't mind a decent explanation on Skill Speed considering nearly every piece of equipment in a Dragoon's armory has a shit tone of skill speed.

Is it's only purpose to speed up oGCD skills charge rate?

More importantly what's the cut off for it's use. Like SkS points to charge time.

If it doesn't help a DRG over all then there is really no point in SkS > Det/Crit on gear.

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Actually, it boosts the speed of GCD skills, not off-GCD skills. It also increases the damage per tick of DoT skills like Phlebotomize. That all said, the effect isn't that noticeable unless you stack a LOT of it, but if you DO stack a ton of it then your defining limit on DPS is your TP regeneration, so there is essentially a soft cap on usefullness.

In the end... it's nice, but it's really not as useful as crit or determination.

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Originally Posted by Urthdigger

..but if you DO stack a ton of it then your defining limit on DPS is your TP regeneration, so there is essentially a soft cap on usefulness.

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Not only do you run into the TP issues. Skill speed 'should be' at a soft spot so it allows GCD/oCD synergy. It can throw off the timings. Such as having Life Surge up every 2nd(?) Full Thrust. I am not sure about DRG new rotations since mine is among 4 non-60s. But at 50 I remember if I had too much SkS (and I did) it would come back up near Chaos Thrust and would sit on CD for a while 5 to 6 GCDs till I got to FT again.

Other examples would be WAR wants just enough to fit 9 GCDs within Berserk duration. On NIN if I have too much SkS I run into mistiming B4B and Duality later on in my rotation. Basically I delay B4B slightly and use it before an Aeolian Edge at some point and ~17s later 'supposedly' get to Duality another AE while B4B is still up. Too much skill speed and I will either have B4B fade before Duality CD is back up or reach AE before Duality is up (or both). NIN also runs into major mudra clipping MORE off the GCD issues with more SkS.