DRG stat priority, and crit question.

1: Is it DH > Crit > Det >>>>>>>> SS?

2: I remember reading there was a point where crit becomes hands-down better than DH some months ago. was it somewhere past 2000 crit?

Regarding SS vs Crit, I'll just give you a small explaination so you can also have some gut feelings for any other jobs.

SS reduces both casting and recast time of skills/spells (the one which trigger the 2.5sec gcd) but don't for the abilities (anything that has a cd or is triggered like the Dragon Dive thingy)

On DRG, you have a lot of small cooldown that do not benefit from SS. All your jump, Geirskogul, Mirage Dive, Nastrond are all skills that won't benefit from SS and unfortunately they are a big part of your dps. So any SS you have is a wasted state on these skills, you could have 100000 SS, these skills would do the same damage as if you had 0 because your Jump cd stays the same and your SS doesn't increase it's dmg. Which is why

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DH > Crit > Det >>>>>>>> SS?

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If you play something like BLM whose damage is 100% based on GCD (even Thundercloud is affected since it reduces the recast time and increase the DoT dmg), SS is good because it boosts 100% of your dmg. (Foul doesn't benefit too much from it since it always triggers on a 30sec basis)

So your second question is what will really matter, at which point Crit > DH

As far as I can remember it was in fact around 2k but don't take my word for it and wait for an experienced DRG that could possibly link some reliable source.

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Originally Posted by Sylvain

So your second question is what will really matter, at which point Crit > DH

As far as I can remember it was in fact around 2k but don't take my word for it and wait for an experienced DRG that could possibly link some reliable source.

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In tier 1 the magic number was at 3,500 combined DH and Crit then Crit was king, I don't know if that has changed with Sigma or not

I'd recommend swapping Crit and Direct Hit around. You want to prioritize Critical Hit>Direct Hit>Determination>Skill Speed for your DRG build.

The skill speed aspect is highly dependent on latency and keeping within particular GCD thresholds (2.44 and 2.43 GCD rotations are more optimal in a raid environment.)
2.43 GCD = 782-848 skill speed
2.44 GCD = 715-781 skill speed

In terms of your second question, it was stated that ~2500 Critical Hit was the threshold where it will out-scale other sub-stats. Regardless of this, the amount of times your abilities crit depend on RNG and group synergy (SCH's usage of Chain Stratagem, AST's Spear Card, BRD's Wanderer's Minuet/Army's Paeon)

Critical Hit takes priority over everything, followed by Direct hit and Determination. Skill Speed is in a separate category since it's basically a stat you want to get to a certain value then never touch it again. Presently, DRG BiS is one of the following:

http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/14T6Q - 723 SkS
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/154TM - 590 SkS

If you have high latency, you may need to increase Skill Speed to accommodate. Personally, I'll be testing out the second due to how much downtime this tier has.