Sweet! I have 150 crit rating!

On my stat sheet it shows I have 150 crit rating. That's awesome, but... how does that effect my character? It would be nice if we could see a percentage or some kind of idea of how much these stats are affecting our characters. The only stats that you can get some kind of idea is skill speed because when you put some on, you can just take a look at a skill and see how long it takes for the recast. The other is vit and that gives 8hp per vit.


I know some people enjoy the idea of having ambiguity when it comes to your stats, but it would be nice if we could see how our characters are being affected. Here are a few examples of what I would like to see...

Str: Increases parry and damage - When you hover your stat it shows how much bonus damage you get and how much + parry rating you get.

Parry: Let it show us your percent chance to parry.

Basically, let us see how these stats effect us because when we don't know how much they do, it makes the bonus stats feel... almost worthless.

Agreed.

The crazies will come in here and cry it's done on wow so can't possibly fit in to this game.

Stand strong, brother. It's a good idea.

My Critical rating is 288 but i dont really do a whole lot of damage the only time i notice i do alot is when i use the full combo up to rage of halone

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Originally Posted by Lethaltyrant

My Critical rating is 288 but i dont really do a whole lot of damage the only time i notice i do alot is when i use the full combo up to rage of halone

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Exactly my point. Your crit rating increases your chance to land a critical hit, however you have no idea how much of an increase you are getting. Maybe your gear and materia increases your crit rating by 100 points, but is your crit chance at 6%? 10%? You have no idea and the only way to find out is if you parse your damage over a 10 minute interval so you can break down the data and see how often you crit. It would be much better if it just told us what our stat increases did as opposed to going through that because the current system actually discourages experimentation of stat set-ups.

I would agree this is a nice to have and actually want it myself. However SE seems determined we waste points I will call them on stats that are already at cap w/o telling us. NO reason why just punishment I guess. Hard to research what each one caps at w/o trial and error since the game is so new again. But those stats will cap effectiveness against mobs just not sure how much they cap. I've been asking that question since beta. Good luck with your thread I hope you get what your asking for.

Was actual thinking about this yesterday, was gonna make a topic to find out :). Asked around but no one seems to have an answer, my guess was remove the last digit, but then people around 50 would probably have around 40-50% crit rate, only would like to know because i wanna but stats into it but dont want to go to far and the points start becoming a waste. tbh it's probably a really simple formula, just have to work it out :).

What the OP is trying to say is we need a detailed tooltip for the stats. This might not help everyone but I'm sure it helps the majority.

I'm sure once the allow mods this will be one of the first to be released.

I'm at like 480 base on BRD and with straight shot and food I've parsed for 30%. So yeah, DMG parser will give you crit %

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Originally Posted by Chocob0charmer

I'm at like 480 base on BRD and with straight shot and food I've parsed for 30%. So yeah, DMG parser will give you crit %

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You are aware that "damage parsers" aren't really damage parsers, but battle log parsers. Which means DoT damage is not calculated. Which means critical DoT damage (which influences multiple mechanics when determining things like DPS for summoners and especially archers) are also not counted.

You guys dont think that in 2 months players will have calculated all this stuff on there own and put it into the wikis? I don't think SE every gave much in-depth info on FFXI but poeple tested absolutely everything and had detailed info for every aspect of the game on the wikis. I like that you need to find out on your own....

For those of you pointing out "This was done in WoW" what you are really stating is, "This was added to wow much later in its development cycle". Until that happened, people performed tests over a very long period of time in order to determine these stats for themselves. You can do so too, and probably can figure it out well before SE will get around to adding it there for you.

Surely it would be much better if it was a % rather than stat? Is there a reason that couldn't be implemented?

This is something that needs to be added to the game. Players should not have to putz around with parsers outside of the game to figure it out.

I willing to bet that they can't give an exact crit % number because it is likely your Crit Rating is calculated vs. Enemy stats to determine what your Crit % is. So 150 crit on one enemy could be 10% crit rate and on another it could be 25%.'

I mean cmon, otherwise we would all just eventually be getting to 100% crit rate.

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You guys dont think that in 2 months players will have calculated all this stuff on there own and put it into the wikis? I don't think SE every gave much in-depth info on FFXI but poeple tested absolutely everything and had detailed info for every aspect of the game on the wikis. I like that you need to find out on your own....

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If by "find out on your own" you mean wait until somebody parses enough logs to tell you exactly how much each point gives and then posts it to a wiki, then SE could save everybody some time and just put in advanced tooltips. 99% of the people don't ever find anything out on their own. They're either told by somebody else or they look it up online.

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For those of you pointing out "This was done in WoW" what you are really stating is, "This was added to wow much later in its development cycle". Until that happened, people performed tests over a very long period of time in order to determine these stats for themselves. You can do so too, and probably can figure it out well before SE will get around to adding it there for you.

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This is also wrong. When WoW was first relased, everything gave percent increases. They had to do away with that system and went to a rating system in order to give people better scaling as expansions came out. When the rating system was released, it told you exactly how much that rating converted into a percent.

I agree, it would be nice to have a mouseover info window that listed exactly HOW each stat augments our damage/performance.