Xenosys Vex Video: 6.2 Crit/Direct changes

Xenosys Vex, a FFXIV content creator for Raiding/Hot PvE balancing Takes, made a video on his take for 6.2 Cirt/DirectHit changes with good points currently heavily related to Warrior and Samurai.

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Note: contains vulgarity

10th Video pointing out where Samurai 6.1 changes were crap. However, when I joined FFXIV and looked at the stats it confused me since forever. Most MMO's simply stick to Crit Chance % and Crit Damage %, yet FFXIV has both fused into Critical Hit. Explained in the video, Direct Hit does indeed add more RNG then it honestly needs to.

Coupled with how FFXIV utilize the Critical Hit stat, raid buffs used by jobs with Auto Crit skills like Warrior and Samurai won't fully be able to make the best of it, creating Anti-Synergy. A huge flaw that SE made, that we only will see sooner or later if they address it properly with the upcoming 6.2.

" Why not split/rework the current stats into Crit Chance and Crit Damage? "
The usual answer I get to this question = Spaghetti-Coding-limitations. It would probably fix a lot if they could, allowing more nuanced Raid and Personal buffs possibilities, they just can't. Or they won't because it destroys every calculation they done up until and it would require to much math for near no extra gain ( by gain I mean $$$ )

As for Auto-Crits being horrible? Yes they are.
At for least Warrior and Samurai. And there's honestly no end in sight of other jobs joining us either on that. Healers already are simplified and we see multiple jobs getting the same simplifying treatment with the " It's the Norm / Why Look surprised / You must be new / Good, about time you joined our suffering " motto/attitude, followed with feedback, complain, ignored and forget - move on and the game didn't really improve looking back to it.

Regardless of the upcoming changes, did Auto-Crit's fix anything? No. Does it answer DPS fluctuating less? Kinda, but that really matters mostly only for Parsing which is not an FFXIV problem, that's an FFLogs problem. Call me crazy, even with my crayons, I love playing FFXIV more then I do FFLogs. I just hope the changes will do something to improve our gameplay, like Party-Comp synergy rather then just giving us more damage for the sake of more damage... but that is just my simple take on it.

Hate to break it to you but if they don't change it with 6.2 than they are never going to change it. It's very clear that they are doubling down on the way crits are valued in the meta with the most recent added synergy between crit/direct hit buffs and attacks that auto crit.

We've voiced our opinion and they don't care to listen, just accept that we've lost.

In case people forgot, Xenosys was one of the first people to come up with the guarantee crit idea for WAR (Fell Cleave) during HW/SB. He got so annoyed by the fluctuation and with same vulgarity demanded to make it a guarantee crit.

(It was very long time ago I don't have time to go through everything for source, but if you look for it you will find it.)

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Originally Posted by Dionysius

In case people forgot, Xenosys was one of the first people to come up with the guarantee crit idea for WAR (Fell Cleave) during HW/SB. He got so annoyed by the fluctuation and with same vulgarity demanded to make it a guarantee crit.

(It was very long time ago I don't have time to go through everything for source, but if you look for it you will find it.)

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Well duh, instead of arguing against this change he gloated and welcomed sam into a club

I have pretty much expressed my opinion there:

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ecause-of-this

Xenosys sucks tbh

This video isn't really about whether actions that guarantee Crit or DH are bad. Whether 6.2 doesn't fix, fixes, or confers an advantage to these actions depends entirely on the formula, which we haven't been shown yet. If the Crit potency gain associated with 'surpassing' 100% is large enough, these jobs will be mandatory picks. At the very minimum, though, it's a buff.

Stop linking e-beggar videos, their opinions are awful too, if they had it their way this game would be a raidlogging minigame.

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Originally Posted by ZiraZ

Stop linking e-beggar videos, their opinions are awful too, if they had it their way this game would be a raidlogging minigame.

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... they say without knowing that Xeno, while loud, also has adopted doing other things in the game. He loves raiding, but that's not his only thing and voiced his opinions on other topics as well - most recently housing.

Good attempt for a strawman.

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Originally Posted by ZiraZ

Stop linking e-beggar videos, their opinions are awful too, if they had it their way this game would be a raidlogging minigame.

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Whats general forums troll is doing here?

in my opinion, the less rng the better. The crit rng in many modern rpgs is a legacy of the old games to give that panache in turn based games, but it's one thing to have THE lucky hit that satisfies you, it's one thing to have a random critical hit every x seconds that comes so often that you don't even notice it except with a dps meter. The critical hit as introduced in the souls would make more sense, where it happens because the monster is actually in a disadvantageous state, or you are in an advantageous position. It would make more sense to introduce combinations of skills, positions, and states than to have a rng hit. So, even if they are using methods that may be questionable, if they reduce the randomness in the game in my opinion it is better. And if they want to considerably reduce the RNG it will certainly not be a quick thing for better or for worse.

Crits are fine. In a game where where bosses have this much HP the odds will more or less even out the damage over time. The only people who care about damage variance being "unfair" is the type who thinks ranking 101th damage dealer rather than 100th, because the next guy got one more lucky crit, actually has any meaningful difference. Besides it's a fools errand anyways when there will always be unfair damage cutoff based on bursts/kill times and latency.

Why SE is going so far out of their way to cater to turboparsers when the game is intentionally built to discourage that kind of dick measuring is anyone's guess. Seem schizophrenic to me.

But in reality the game could eliminate rng in attacks and balance it in such a way that it works just the same and you probably wouldn't notice. because the crit from what happens so often as to be a normal thing and not an extraordinary thing as the intention of the crit was born.

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Originally Posted by Karious

Xenosys sucks tbh

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You say this yet have nothing showing you actually doing endgame content on your character profile.

Why do you care what happens in the game when you don't even do the content these changes are tailored to?

Hate the man all you want, but since you don't even do the content, WHY DO YOU CARE

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Originally Posted by DixieBellOCE

You say this yet have nothing showing you actually doing endgame content on your character profile.

Why do you care what happens in the game when you don't even do the content these changes are tailored to?

Hate the man all you want, but since you don't even do the content, WHY DO YOU CARE

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You gotta understand man, feelings over things you will never touch matter a lot. /laugh

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Originally Posted by Ggwppino

But in reality the game could eliminate rng in attacks and balance it in such a way that it works just the same and you probably wouldn't notice. because the crit from what happens so often as to be a normal thing and not an extraordinary thing as the intention of the crit was born.

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To what benefit? I'll definitely notice every DPS buff is the same boring flat potency.

if you consider the game itself nothing, if not to have damage calculations less wobbly. But also the disadvantages are not there, so the problem does not arise in any way.
in fact, one is attentive to the infinity of numbers on the screen to actually see that the damage changes ... Sure. Besides the fact that you are stating that reading a small 20% crit chance or 8% damage drastically changes your game... Well that's the keys, that's the game. Absolutely nothing changes on the gameplay side, but only on the calculations side (and for the better). It is one thing if the crit happened 2 times to fight while remaining in the values of the crit that gives you satisfaction or frustration (it depends on the game and the context and who receives the crit hit), it is one thing to have it so often that you don't even notice.
1) it is not meritocratic, but it is a server that decides if you do more damage or less (as I wrote before if the crit was based on states, positions and skill combinations like souls it would make a lot more sense in a modern game)
2) you just don't notice it if you play for the sake of playing and not to be first in the world. And even more so, if you want to be first in the world where everything is decided by randomness, it is also and only frustrating.
So for those who play for the sake of playing absolutely nothing changes, while for those who want to be first in the world the experience is less frustrating. So I don't understand the point of wanting to complain if they eliminate bad randomness in the game

I’m confused, weren’t the crit dh buffs supposed to make midare stronger? I seem to be hitting the exact same. Or is this one of those things that won’t show substantial impact until we hit the new crit threshold after some savage gear or something?

don't the stat weights change with every new raid tier? aka crit / dh weights will change again eitherway?

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(it will never be 100% crit.., even if Rng sucks, the game needs those occasionally high numbers to shine.., if they're always at max / 100 crit, than the numbers can get boring)