How to choose materia for each class?

[mosaicex]

But hear me out (I will also be pulling numbers out of my butt, because I haven't done the proper testing, but here is my reasoning). SMN damage isn't like BLM (or most other DPS Jobs). I will neI believe the average crit rate is around 20%. So if I use Ruin III as an example, say I cast that 5 times when dreadwyrm comes up (base of 2000 would give me around a 3500 crit). Assuming RNG doesn't hate me, I should get one crit from that. 3.5+2+2+2+2 = 11.5K total. Now, lets say I load up on Det. Even if all it gives me is 2400 on Ruin III (maybe more, like I said, I haven't tested the numbers correctly), that is 11.5K, same amount as crit, and is a guaranteed number every time . And with the amount of little DPS ticks everywhere (all my DoTs, my pet damage, Ruin 1/2/3), it seems more reliable in the end, because what do I do with a bad run when nothing wants to crit?

Like I said, I'm not ruling out Crit, but I need to test the evidence for myself. My goal isn't exactly server-top numbers, lol, too busy with irl to ever hope to get that good, so I thought the "safer" stats might work better for me.

Thing is, Det doesn't affect your damage THAT much. Also you're forgetting skills like Deathflare, Painflare, Fester. A critical hit from these skills DO boost your damage significantly.

Also Spell speed has higher effect on DoTs damage than Det, by the way.

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Thing is, Det doesn't affect your damage THAT much. Also you're forgetting skills like Deathflare, Painflare, Fester. A critical hit from these skills DO boost your damage significantly.

Also Spell speed has higher effect on DoTs damage than Det, by the way.

I know, but ty! In an earlier post I was musing about a SpS/Crit build to maximize DoTs. :3 Lol sorry, I edited in after, probably right before you posted your reply (how I doubted Det gave that big of a dmg boost, so I'd have to look at it more).

Either way, I think so long as I know not to put Skill Speed on anything (I've seen it. D: Don't even laugh, I have seen casters do this), I'm not doing too badly lmao.