Quote Originally Posted by JackFross View Post
Otherwise, you're telling me that the raw difference in damage power between 30 crit and 29 determination is more powerful than the gains from 44 skill speed. I don't think that's something that should even be in question. There's no way that's the case.
I think that asking whether or not the bolded statement is true is a valid question. Sometimes silly things turn out to be the most optimal alignment because it is more powerful in another specific area. This is why I wanted to avoid making any conclusions or hypothesis' on your build in comparison, because I am unsure of how to mathematically value Skill Speed. I would like to believe that 29 DET and 44 Skill Speed is superior to 30 Crit and an overload on accuracy, but I refrain from making that judgement. You seem to be confident that it is, and that's valuable information for me; how so exactly? I would be intrigued to know how I should value Skill Speed and in what context.

I also acknowledge that the mathematics I based my calculations on are (which were provided in the OP) are outdated; a more accurate assessment of the numbers would require more research.

That being said, this consideration was purposed solely to investigate flat hitting power in the comparison between Crit and Determination, which finds that every point of Crit is worth at least two points of DET for the purposes of DRG BiS. When comparing FFXIVGuild's configuration against the other two, I thus found that the flat hitting power of the former is significantly superior despite its Skill Speed advantage against both, which I thought was important. If we use 1500 as the baseline, the ~4.4% differential can lead to a 66 DPS increase.

Is this still true? I don't know and I would very much so like to hear about this.