Quote Originally Posted by Pellegri View Post
You know Easymode I'd still like to see this magical max level bard you have where you can actually put all this "theorycrafting" you have to work.
Don't be mad I can play a Bard better than most players who have a level 50 Bard :\.

Anyone can make a spreadsheet or come up with random numbers trying to label something better than the next,
But most people can't do it as well as I can.

you have a thing for an extremely subpar stat for this class.
I laugh when people claim it has 0 value because they're ignorant tools.

As people have told you in various other threads SS does not affect our dots in the least
Amazing new revelation!

(the only redeeming factor SS could have for us)
1. Roughly 30% of Bard damage is from DOTs. Another 11% are OGCDs. The rest of Bard damage is enhanced by Skill Speed.
2. You get better DOT uptime with some skill speed. Fantastic new revelation!

The other thing you need to look at is just how much stacking SS would hurt us,
Really? I should look at this? Why? I've already estimated the value of SS for Bards to be relatively poor compared to all other stats (the ~0.13 range compared to crit's ~0.23).

However, poor != 0.

it takes away from more dmg(det/crit)
I'd give up 10 det/crit for 10,000 skill speed. I'd even give up 10 det or crit for 20 skill speed.

Interesting that SS is itemized at roughly 1:1 with crit, and 1.5:1 with det so this choice is uncommon.

and gives us less RoB procs
Ironically, ROB procs are only ~10% of a Bard's damage output. In addition, the majority of a Bard's crit is from their base stat (341), Straight Shot (worth 144 crt), with a side of IR (worth 72 crt on average). Pretty sure your general proc rate won't change much with that 20 crit rating on a piece of gear.

most of our ilvl 90 pieces of gear we get the choice of SS and Acc
I don't really care. It's up to Bards to assess Bard gear, bro.