WAR Crit/Rampage build

FOOD: Broiled Bream: +10 Crit Rate

MAIN - Malignant Mogaxe: +15 Crit Rate
HEAD - Fighter's Bergeonet: +10 Crit Rate
LEGS - Fighter's Breeches: +10 Crit Rate
HANDS - Sipahi Gloves: +15 Crit Rate
FEET - Explorer's Moccasins: +30 Crit Rate
WAIST - Explorer's Belt: +12 Crit Rate
NECK - Explorer's Chocker: +20 Crit Rate

RINGS - Electrum Ring(2): +30 Acccuracy.
BODY - Darklight Cuirass: +20 Attack Power, +50 Crit Attack Power / 2X Savage Might III Body or better

+122 Crit Rate in total and I can't imagine ever using Berserk again.

how do you know darklight cuiress is even meldable?

Darklight Cuirass isn't meldable.

the "/" implies an "or" in that instance. The Darklight Cuirass or a body w/ double melded crit materia's. An equivelant.
Also, I'd really like to know what the crit rate translates to in a % value. Wondering if the trade off is worth it, but considering rampage, I'd say War if anything is the best job to pursue a crit build in. Why else would they throw so much Crit rate nonsense in with this patch. When you get that gear setup, let us know how it works out :D!

Critical rate will help alot, but depending on what you fight the dmg from criticals vs. att/str overload might be kinda minimal or even lower. i think it depends on target mobs and purpose of the job, DD as opposed to tanking.

With that said, however, it would at least be tons of fun to run around seein criticals all over the place :D

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Originally Posted by Peptaru

Critical rate will help alot, but depending on what you fight the dmg from criticals vs. att/str overload might be kinda minimal or even lower. i think it depends on target mobs and purpose of the job, DD as opposed to tanking.

With that said, however, it would at least be tons of fun to run around seein criticals all over the place :D

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Criticals hits yield 50-100% more damage normally, and that can be increased with higher crit attack dmg.
The big question is how often +122 Crit rate will make you crit, like Turtle already mentioned.
So if your normal crit rate is 10% and adding +122 increases your rate to 35-40% so that every 3rd attack lands for a crit, then in that case the crit build would not only out dps at STR & ATK build, it would also make for a decent tank build with all those crits giving HP back while under Rampage effect.


And yes, the "/" means or. No Darklight armor is meldable, so I'm giving the option of that or a multi melded Savage Might Materia on your choice of body armor.

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Originally Posted by Holyomen

Criticals hits yield 50-100% more damage normally, and that can be increased with higher crit attack dmg.
The big question is how often +122 Crit rate will make you crit, like Turtle already mentioned.
So if your normal crit rate is 10% and adding +122 increases your rate to 35-40% so that every 3rd attack lands for a crit, then in that case the crit build would not only out dps at STR & ATK build, it would also make for a decent tank build with all those crits giving HP back while under Rampage effect.


And yes, the "/" means or. No Darklight armor is meldable, so I'm giving the option of that or a multi melded Savage Might Materia on your choice of body armor.

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There are extensive tests about Critical dmg, on mobs that are like 56 or 58, idr which number atm, even having one crit dmg + materia in your gear doesn't add enough to break the what you can do with no crit dmg +, and that number is only 15% dmg bonus.... so it really depends what you're fighting.

At the same time i'd love to figure out more about how much critical (or mag crit) rates are affected by the numbers, so far i'm leaning toward crit rate + things working like enmity, .1 for every 1, meaning that +122 would be a 12.2% increase in critical rate on most mobs within say 3-4 levels of your own, maximizing its effects 5 levels below you but then scaling down the further things are beneath you like most things do (to an extent). when mobs are higher, like 56+ would that rate still hold true or would it be much more awful because of dLvl mechanics which are nightmares right now?

I personally do not like "chance" for tanking and prefer an attack/str/enmity build for Rampage.

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Originally Posted by KumaAkuma

I personally do not like "chance" for tanking and prefer an attack/str/enmity build for Rampage.

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Isn't the point of +crit rate to minimize chance?

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Originally Posted by Bocajo

Isn't the point of +crit rate to minimize chance?

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Crit build is damage in bursts that might or might not happen.

Non crit build is stable flow of damage over time.