Question in regards to end game gear (Healers)

[JCT]

Are we still talking about healing stats? or are we going into damage now x.x...I just want to make sure I am following the conversation correctly.

From what I understand playing as my Scholar critical hit becomes important because of the skill Adloquium which benefits greatly from the crit. I just got my WHM to 70 as well so it would be good to take a look into the secondary stats for that job as well. Another question is I know that each of the jobs play slightly differently which could affect which stats you would want to focus on, but is it drastic in change? or does it just reflect around Crit and Det again? (Not overlooking Piety or Spell Speed, but it just seems the other two is everyones focus).

[Ghishlain]

Are we still talking about healing stats? or are we going into damage now x.x...I just want to make sure I am following the conversation correctly.

From what I understand playing as my Scholar critical hit becomes important because of the skill Adloquium which benefits greatly from the crit. I just got my WHM to 70 as well so it would be good to take a look into the secondary stats for that job as well. Another question is I know that each of the jobs play slightly differently which could affect which stats you would want to focus on, but is it drastic in change? or does it just reflect around Crit and Det again? (Not overlooking Piety or Spell Speed, but it just seems the other two is everyones focus).

Secondary stats would affect healing spells in the same manner as their damage equivalents, though I don't know for certain if the magnitude is the same. IE if 100 det increases your damage by 1%, if the same number of det would increase your healing by the same 1%. I know Critical Hit Rate has the same affect on both healing and damage as I did a test for it back in late HW and I don't see any reason why Det and Spell Speed don't have the same effect either unless someone speaks otherwise.

In terms of secondaries, certain kits benefit more from certain stats than others though it's usually up to each individual to determine what they would prefer to stack for their healer's. Asa you mentioned, Adlo gains a benefit for critting so Crit is preferred over other secondaries on SCH. In contrast, if you want to focus more on damage for SCH, melding Direct Hit or focusing gear / Materia more on Spell Speed can have its benefits as SCH has access to 4 DoTs which does affect the DoT potency.

As someone else has mentioned, Piety isn't of that great effect to WHM as they have an already great MP pool though Piety can have benefits for SCH and AST. If you really want to min-max healers, you can have different gear sets for different healers once you start to get more and more gear and build around that though most players probably use the same gear set for every healer.

At the end of the day, Determination and Critical will generally give you the most bang for your buck as a healer with a splash of Piety if you feel you need a better MP pool to help with your healing, but you won't see any massive detriment if you focused your secondaries somewhere else either.