SS for BRD

what does Skill speed do with BRDs?

Nothing.

/10char

It increases Bard DPS, but it increases it less than equivalent amounts of Determination, and much less than equivalent amounts of Crit.

Crit > Dtr > SS > nothing

It slightly deceases GCD. The scaling on it is really poor right now, much better off taking Crit and Det anywhere possible.

The two highest DPS bard I've seen on literally every end game fight are speced into about 475ish SS, the bards stacking the other two stats (crit/det) have always been lower(by a large amount at that). So, are these two just really good? Or are all these other brd I've played with just really bad/bad rotations? Serious question here because it's been driving me nuts trying to figure out how in the hell these two have been doing much better in SS builds than the cookie cutter crit stacking everyones doing.

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Originally Posted by Hanemakikaze

The two highest DPS bard I've seen on literally every end game fight are speced into about 475ish SS, the bards stacking the other two stats (crit/det) have always been lower(by a large amount at that). So, are these two just really good?

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Those bards with the 475ish skill speed are probably just more comfortable with the fights than the other bards, which means they're just overall better than the other bards out there. I stack crit (sitting 598 in accuracy setup with accuracy food or 611 in full crit setup) and I have yet to be beaten by another bard on my server. Granted, the better bards are typically going to be paying attention to boss rotations and making the right choices of when to use cooldowns for maximized usage throughout the fight. Secondary stats aren't going to help a worse player do more dps than the better player.

Songi Legaia what do you have on?

Sadly, since it seems 90% of the bard community uses macros for their 3 main abilities (SS, VB, and WB by adding BL and ME to them), Skill speed is completely negated as macro's force a slower GCD. I'm not saying skill speed is an important stat but for most bards, they aren't utilizing it at all because of macro use.

I would like to see what gear setup you have for 600+ crit for a bard, I dont see the numbers you can use to maximise that much crit.

looking at the character on lodestone

Accuracy416.
Critical Hit Rate587.
Determination279

Accuracy must not be as important......

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Originally Posted by HawtDawg

I would like to see what gear setup you have for 600+ crit for a bard, I dont see the numbers you can use to maximise that much crit.

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I don't think it's possible - the most you can get is 587 w/o food, but you end up with only 416 accuracy and have to use i80 necklace.

Edit: figured it out - with hq deviled eggs this setup comes to 611 crit / 424 acc.

Could be a setup for Ex Primals. Ex Primals have no accuracy cap that I am aware of (you can go in with 430 accuracy and not miss at all).

The setup you see on my character page is my EX primal setup and I use it for the majority of coil with the exception of T5. For that I just simply swap out my Ifrit Bangle and Garuda Ring for crafted ones to give me the extra boost that I need. I also will opt to eat HQ Stuffed Cabbage as well for the extra accuracy that Deviled Eggs won't give me. Granted, with 461 accuracy after food I will still miss against the giant snake but at least I'm relatively safe against Twintania herself.