Why is SE so passionate about giving PLD's Critical Hit Rate on their gear?

[Mijin]

Battle > Raids > In Another Bind.

Try harder.

It's also not possible to get the mapping achievements unless you have beaten the turn; the exit area is an undiscovered section of map. So it is tantamount to a "I cleared this" in 90% of cases..

That was the entire point of my post (lmfao) are you kidding me right now? Did you even read it? I'm saying that poster is in the same position I am in. They have yet to clear T8, and they're bragging about clearing T7 like it's hard. I didn't play the game for seven months, I came back and started clearing new coil content right off the bat, rust and all. I don't care how many times they've cleared T7, they've got months on me for that content, and I got it on the third try. That person has nothing to assert their authority with. /end of story.

Unrealistic in that in our real world scenario I can do 150 at least as MT while DRG can do 400+, yes. I was giving a very pared down example for your benefit.

Unrealistic because every fight is different, and regardless of how much DMG a PLD does, the difference CRIT makes is negligible, maybe with max CRIT available 10% difference at the most, most certainly (laughs) not 50k dps. SS while adding even less damage, it still adds to both offensive and defensive capabilities. CRIT is the most useless stat you can use on a PLD. If the DMG increase from the CRIT they have available was much more substantial you might then have a valid argument, but as it stands now, it's not worth even replacing what small bonus SS offers in light of our only choices being parry, SS, or CRIT

everything fits into my 3 reasons for dying

We're way off subject, but this sure isn't true. Here are just a few more examples: Lag, DC, gear sucks so they take more dmg, gear is broken, OT uses provoke by mistake, etc etc etc. Have some common sense. It's absurd to be arguing about this. It doesn't even have anything to do with the topic pf this thread. I already told you, even if you have decent healers, and people that hardly ever make mistakes on mechanics PLD's should always focus on defense rather than offense, it makes everyone else's jobs easier, but for arguments sake, those aren't the only three groups of mistakes that kill people.

P.S. It's nice that you know exactly how much damage you do from parsing it, but FFXIV APP is now considered a bannable offense. Third party software is against the ToS, and recently SE have actually started banning people for it. Of course, the only way they can find out if someone is using it is if they blatantly admit it like you just did. Sure would be a shame if some one were to report you.