Balancing Crit & Dir vs Over melding Crit or Dir

[aleph_null]

Anyone here heard of this? despite this, isn't still ilevel > this factor? DH> crit for melds?

Sounds like a misconception to me. I mean yeah mathematically if you have x = probability of crit and y = probability of dh, to maximize x*y = probability of crit and dh assuming we know the maximum sum x + y, is to make x and y roughly equal. But the thing here is that x and y are probabilities, i.e. crit/dh proc chances, not the stat numbers. We only know the maximum sum of stats (something like, at i340 with melds, crit + dh stats max at 4000 for a certain job, or something like that). Keeping x and y roughly equal is impossible due to the nature of dh's faster scaling compared to crit. You can easily get 40%+ dh rate, while your crit rate is probably in the range of 15-20%.

[Snow_Princess]

Sounds like a misconception to me. I mean yeah mathematically if you have x = probability of crit and y = probability of dh, to maximize x*y = probability of crit and dh assuming we know the maximum sum x + y, is to make x and y roughly equal. But the thing here is that x and y are probabilities, i.e. crit/dh proc chances, not the stat numbers. We only know the maximum sum of stats (something like, at i340 with melds, crit + dh stats max at 4000 for a certain job, or something like that).Keeping x and y roughly equal is impossible due to the nature of dh's faster scaling compared to crit. You can easily get 40%+ dh rate, while your crit rate is probably in the range of 15-20%.

I figured that was the case but unlike some I do not dismiss claims when I do not know better.

But ya , TC for leveling gear melding is not very important, most don't. But you can always meld some cheap DH, then crit if DH is maxed, I mean I did but the only reason I did it is because I can. If you are even tight in gil in the slightest (asking if this is worth it) then the answer is do not worry about melds on leveling gear and do ilevel> everything else.