Lost Allagan Codex

Stupid question: Is Lost Allagan Codex better than Susano's codex? We lose a lot of crit for SS, which I hear is terrible for us. So we lose 184 crit for 188 SS. Do the other stat increases make up for that or is SS not really that bad for us?

Stab in the dark: Yes. The wpn dmg + extra main stat should outweigh any secondaries.

Personally, I prefer stacking SS over Crit this expansion, just because Aldo costs an arm and a leg to cast MP wise. Not to mention your total DPS as a healer is how people judge you, and SS increases your DPS with dots, not to mention fitting another broil into your rotation.

It has always been great debate which is better SS or Crit. This expansion, I'm choosing SS instead of Crit.

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Originally Posted by Ftail

It has always been great debate which is better SS or Crit. This expansion, I'm choosing SS instead of Crit.

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It has literally never been a debate over which is better for SCH....Crit has always dominated.

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Originally Posted by Ftail

Personally, I prefer stacking SS over Crit this expansion, just because Aldo costs an arm and a leg to cast MP wise. Not to mention your total DPS as a healer is how people judge you, and SS increases your DPS with dots, not to mention fitting another broil into your rotation.

It has always been great debate which is better SS or Crit. This expansion, I'm choosing SS instead of Crit.

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Your reasoning for picking SS over Crit makes no sense. You want to make it harder to fish for Crits on an ability that gained increased MP cost?

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Originally Posted by VanilleFang

Your reasoning for picking SS over Crit makes no sense. You want to make it harder to fish for Crits on an ability that gained increased MP cost?

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You should never fish for aldo crits on a SCH...

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Originally Posted by Ftail

You should never fish for aldo crits on a SCH...

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uh deployment/emergency tactics would beg to differ?

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

uh deployment/emergency tactics would beg to differ?

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You can't really fish for a Crit Adlo for E-Tactics since it's random and E-tactics goes off on the next galvanize effect.
As for Deployment Tactics, outside of pre-pull, trying to fish for a Crit Adlo when a mechanic is coming that would require that shield is just asking for trouble as you risk missing the time to shield against the mechanic as well as running out of MP due to Adlos cost.

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Originally Posted by Pence

It has literally never been a debate over which is better for SCH....Crit has always dominated.

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SpS held a higher dps stat weight than crit in HW. SCH chose to stack crit for their adlo trait in HW, but should have used sps as a close secondary.

Losing bio and aero diminishes the value of sps for this expax.

I really wanna know what I should be focusing on because right now I use Crit and SS materia as a Scholar but I have no clue what's actually best to be using. A few threads have said that Direct Hit is really useful for your DPS but Critical Hit and Spell Speed have obvious universal appeal for both healing and damage output.