Materia melding for RDM?

[wereotter]

From what I know the reverse is true. Direct Hit is a static amount of attack increase with a 1% increase in chance to direct hit for every 40 points making it the easiest DPS stat to inflate. So I would say DH>Crit>Det. As a red mage, avoid spell speed at all costs as if it gets too high, it will mess with your mana gauge and corps-a-corps cooldown.

[Furious]

DH scales better than crit until very high levels of crit. RDM has no mechanics that function off either, so you're basically going for the mathematical best. Broadly speaking, until we can get into the low 3000s of crit, pack on that DH. On a class like bard, for example, that scales heavily from crit thanks to the song procs it has, it doesn't matter as much that direct hit is better than crit on a pure dps scale, they will lose damage from not proccing their class mechanics enough. Interestingly, det is also stronger than crit for quite a while (its almost definitely better than crit for everyone but bard and monk in the current gear that we have).

From what I know the reverse is true. Direct Hit is a static amount of attack increase with a 1% increase in chance to direct hit for every 40 points making it the easiest DPS stat to inflate. So I would say DH>Crit>Det. As a red mage, avoid spell speed at all costs as if it gets too high, it will mess with your mana gauge and corps-a-corps cooldown.

No idea what you mean by this, but mathematically the result is right. DH gives 25% bonus damage, with 1% chance for 39.09 rating. Crit gives 1% chance per 108.5 rating, but your base crit damage is 40% and it scales up at the same rate as your crit chance from rating does (meaning that it has both a lower floor but a higher ceiling, and scales better than other stats).

There's a reddit thread about stats from yesterday with some info in it, and I made a spreadsheet for a quick way to look at the outcome which is here. There might be some errors in the sheet, I did it quickly. You can make a copy of it and change the grey boxes to see the effects on your own stats.

[Claire_Pendragon]

From what I know the reverse is true. Direct Hit is a static amount of attack increase with a 1% increase in chance to direct hit for every 40 points making it the easiest DPS stat to inflate. So I would say DH>Crit>Det. As a red mage, avoid spell speed at all costs as if it gets too high, it will mess with your mana gauge and corps-a-corps cooldown.

CaC isnt needed to move during fights.
You can just use your GCD from dual cast to get back into melee range.
I tend to blow CaC the moment its available. (with only a few exceptions depending on upcoming mechanics.)

[wereotter]

CaC isnt needed to move during fights.
You can just use your GCD from dual cast to get back into melee range.
I tend to blow CaC the moment its available. (with only a few exceptions depending on upcoming mechanics.)

It's not required to get into melee range, but if you want to play the job with the easiest flow and simplicity, you use Corps-a-Corps to get into melee range and Displacement to get back out enabling you to use the maximum amount of time casting. You don't clip time you could be doing DPS by moving. As such, if your spell speed is too high, then you can't utilize these skills. Optimally you want your spell speed to enable you to be at 80/80 mana every time Corps-a-Corps comes off cooldown, and no higher.