Someone stacking DET over crit will see "more massive" numbers, not the other way around.

I think with all factor's considered WARs top end hit is Inner Beast in the 1850 range if you stack DET on T6-9 bosses. If you stacked Crit instead of DET its probably closer to 1700-1750... its sort of irrelevant to the Novus discussion as you'd need the HA axe to hit that but I'm just using it as an example. (My best has been a 1792 I think, and I could get more DET and I assume that wasn't a perfect dmg roll)

Also someone stated Novus "eliminates" the DET deficiency.... doesn't it force you to stop DET early? I haven't really done Novus yet but I thought I saw people only capping DET out at 31-33 and Crit/Parry/Acc around 40-44 so that you can't surpass the hard limits of a 110 stat weight?