Paladin BiS Accessory Reddit Discussion

[Leiron]

Are you STR or VIT stacked?

Vit stacked using a +1 Curtana.

SS with full Gryphon Gear: 359 = 2.156s GCD
SS with full Hero/Allagan: 352 = 2.162s GCD

Hold up a second.
How are you running a near 2s GCD with that amount of skill speed?
Or am I misinterpreting?
I am not seeing anyone get close to that small a GCD unless they are SS stacking monks.

Unless perhaps I am misunderstanding something here.sniping for space

Ohhh I see.
Okay I didn't consider the increased crit rate.
I do not believe Shield Lob damage is affected by Dexterity I think its strength.
I know for sure Tomahawk is/was based off of Dexterity.

[Maelwys]

Hold up a second.
How are you running a near 2s GCD with that amount of skill speed?
Or am I misinterpreting?

It looks like that's from plugging those SS values into the old GCD formula, but without subtracting the base values first. Probably just a missing dependency in that older copy of the spreadsheet.

Subtracting the base (Base SS @50 is 341) I get 2.49s and 2.48s respectively (if we round to 2 DP as per the above formula)

Ohhh I see.
Okay I didn't consider the increased crit rate.
I do not believe Shield Lob damage is affected by Dexterity I think its strength.
I know for sure Tomahawk is/was based off of Dexterity.

I'm fairly sure that physical ranged attacks are based off Dex and melee attacks are based off STR... and Shield Lob is definitely marked as a Ranged attack...? Drat. Something else to test...

If memory serves, Det is technically quite a bit better than Crit for increasing PLD damage- it's why the BIS builds generally swap out the Valor Hands (15 Crit) instead of the Allagan Feet (11 Det) whenever they need a little extra accuracy.

[Gamemako]

I'm fairly sure that physical ranged attacks are based off Dex and melee attacks are based off STR... and Shield Lob is definitely marked as a Ranged attack...? Drat. Something else to test...

Even Flash, a magical attack, is based off of physical stats. The damage formula is such that if Shield Lob were based on Dexterity, you'd see extremely low damage from the attack. It is highly unlikely that DEX contributes to Shield Lob damage in any way.