New SCH, have a few questions

[Eloah]

If you want to compare them fully, let's compare the crit multipliers and all the gains of the skills in question. Given current normal crit values, SCH can expect an approximate crit multiplier of 1.5x.

So if we've got a prepull Adlo + in-fight Reci Excog + the tick of Fey Union you get, plus let's say another Aetherflow heal is needed and you happen to have a charge left thanks to Reci Excog and you use Sacred Soil, you've got the shield's potency of 375 (chance to crit and approximately triple the shield), plus the ~1200 potency of the guaranteed Excog crit, plus the 560 potency of Fey Union (400 base potency per tick, pet abilities scale at 70% of player abilities), plus the 5 ticks of Soil over its duration (if the tank plays nice you get the guaranteed instant tick when you set the ability down) for 500/600 potency, for a minimum total potency of 2355/2455. Not counting the 10% mitigation of Soil ofc.

So let's compare that to the Reci Adlo + in-fight Excog, + the tick of Fey Union, assuming a similar prepull shield. At that point you've got the 1125 potency shield, 800 potency from Excog, and 280 potency from Fey Union, for a minimum total potency of 2205.

In conclusion, Recitation has far more value than just "guarantees a Critlo".

These threads just make my heads hurt after a while.

Also, I don't want this thread to get anymore off track, but why do your calculations include Sacred Soil in one but not the other, and why does one appear to have a 560/400 Fey Union and the other only a 280. The only variances that should exist in your examples should be the guaranteed crit from Recitation. Now I am not saying that the combined potencies for a crit Excog can't be greater than a crit Adlo if you combine it with other things, but the two examples you gave seem a bit skewed.