Stop doubling down on Auto Crits and homogenizing jobs because of this

[Stasya]

When damage variance from dh/crit/crit+dh looks bad? When you have a bunch of skills with 2000+ potiencies on 2 min cooldown so if nothing procs it will look bad: missing damage from gambling you can't even control.

But is it because crit mechanic overall is bad?

Or it comes from devs lazyness to even play a job to certain level so they put such drastic potencies in 2 minute cooldowns so it's either win or lose every 2 minutes.

Auto crits is terrible approach to try to fix what devs had did themselfs. Is it hard to play with potencies of every skills in rotation to just simply spread some bits from 2 min cooldowns into rotation loop? Oh wait, this requires some competent person to do this work.

The genius behind SAM auto crit thought that some damage variance will be bad in ultimate ... Thanks to him as SAM i can't find any static to do DSR... You either play NIN/MNK/DRG or switch roles. SE literally ruined first ultimate patch for me.

And to add insult to injury as recent Live Letter states they are going to do adjust crit buffs to work with auto crit abilities ..... which 99% is going to be just plain damage buff. This will easily lead to homogenizing buffs even more - all of them will be same % damage up after some patches.

After WAR, SAM who is next? DRG (which obviously on the way), DRK (this is literally 5th dps at this point with these 2 minute potencies, devs destroyed SAM/DNC combo and now sometimes DNC should switch DP to TANK in DSR ...), GNB, NIN (that is new SAM of this god awful patch)

[Aco505]

The best way to tackle this problem would be to make direct hit/crit chance buffs increase the damage of automatic (direct) crit attacks/attacks with 100% chance and behave normally otherwise.

This change would benefit all jobs equally, solve these problems and avoid future homogenization issues related to buffs. If they still need to tweak the way the crit stat scales or any other number, they can easily do it without making all jobs give flat %-damage buffs, at which moment you wonder what's the point of party buffs anymore.

See here for a thread with more discussion on the matter of crit/dh buffs: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post5880390.

[QooEr]

i don't understand why "damage variance" because of crits is so undesirable that theyre negatively affecting gameplay to curb it. we don't even have an in-game damage meter.

the only people affected by this "variance" are chasing the high rolls of their own volition.

[Rilifane]

i don't understand why "damage variance" because of crits is so undesirable that theyre negatively affecting gameplay to curb it. we don't even have an in-game damage meter.

the only people affected by this "variance" are chasing the high rolls of their own volition.

And the people deliberately farming logs are generally not the people that complain about it.
It just makes me wonder who this change was for? Who asked for it? Sure, bad rng can be frustrating but making everyone's damage into a perfectly predictable flatline with an equally perfectly predictable spike every 2min doesn't make it better.

[Sebazy]

My best guess is that this is to narrow the window of expected group DPS variance further, perhaps to make gauging and tuning dps requirements easier for the dev team.

It fits in well with the running theme of changes IMO.

[Rolder50]

My best guess is that this is to narrow the window of expected group DPS variance further, perhaps to make gauging and tuning dps requirements easier for the dev team.

It fits in well with the running theme of changes IMO.

Frankly I would be amazed if crits caused enough variance to cause this. If we're going that route it just sounds like balancing laziness...

[Rosenstrauch]

My best guess is that this is to narrow the window of expected group DPS variance further, perhaps to make gauging and tuning dps requirements easier for the dev team.

It fits in well with the running theme of changes IMO.

I suppose the end of this progressive development cycle is all Jobs having a 2 minute burst phase with auto crits on all their biggest hits. And maybe critical hit damage being changed to a fixed multiplier, like Direct Hit. And then maybe the ability to get critical hits or direct hits outside of burst phases being removed from the game. Less stats to keep track of if crits/direct hits are always all or nothing.

[Saraide]

i don't understand why "damage variance" because of crits is so undesirable that theyre negatively affecting gameplay to curb it. we don't even have an in-game damage meter.

the only people affected by this "variance" are chasing the high rolls of their own volition.

Okay so what? Is it so crazy to throw a bone to parsers? The vindictiveness against parsers is something the community has much much more than the devs.

[Shurrikhan]

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I.e., just convert excess effect % chance to additional effect % power, and have guaranteed effects increase their affected effect chance by 100%.

120% chance of +50% crit -> 100% chance of +60% crit.

[QooEr]

Okay so what? Is it so crazy to throw a bone to parsers? The vindictiveness against parsers is something the community has much much more than the devs.

if the "bones" they throw at us are like what sam got in 6.2 they can keep them. rather than being excited for job udpdates i dread them now