The damage variance between a Critical Hit and a Non-Critical hit.

[DixieBellOCE]

Yeah I never understood this either. It was meant to replace Accuracy but I also never understood why adding additional crit damage with more crit damage. It worked fine before then so why another extra crit?

It's weird because other games make it very easy and simple: crit increases crit percentage and usually that's it since a crit damage is usually a static multiplication (double damage or 2.5 damage, depends on the game itself), spell/skill speed increases speed (why isn't it just one stat called haste already...), and determination is a net damage and healing increase of a certain % (if you played wow, it's the Versatility stat)

And I also don't get it why we tanks get Tenacity - which is essentially a worse determination stat - and hardly any other proper avoidance stats like Parry or Dodge (we had parry but it was poorly implemented)
Piety is completely useless mana recovery stat considering how healing works in the game and with so many mana recovery skills already in the game. I'm not even a healer main and I rarely go oom!

It's no wonder that most classes still only require Crit and Det to this day!

Pretty much the state of XIV.

Direct Hit should be changed to "Critical Damage %" and Critical Strike should just be "Critical Strike %"

This way you still build like normal, but overall damage variance is only dependent on a single multiplier and not two.

If crit was a flat % potency increase, then stats below would work fine:
2515 Crit = ~33% Crit Chance
1718 Det = ~27% Flat Damage
1400 Crit Damage = ~25% bonus Crit Damage

33% chance to hit for 25% extra damage, with your base damage being 127% of potency.
This would result in Base Potency + 27% x 1.25

So a 100 potency attack that crits would be:
100 + 27 x 1.25 = 158.75

Where as a non-crit would be 127.00

Now add that to an actual skill (Blast Arrow)
And you have 600 + 27 x 1.25 = 633.75 potency

That is a much small variance than having DH included in the calculations, but is not including the weapon damage to get the actual damage. (I believe it is different for every job, for bard it used to be 1 weapon damage = 9.153 Dexterity)

[Voltyblast]

Pretty much the state of XIV.

Direct Hit should be changed to "Critical Damage %" and Critical Strike should just be "Critical Strike %"

This way you still build like normal, but overall damage variance is only dependent on a single multiplier and not two.

If crit was a flat % potency increase, then stats below would work fine:
2515 Crit = ~33% Crit Chance
1718 Det = ~27% Flat Damage
1400 Crit Damage = ~25% bonus Crit Damage

33% chance to hit for 25% extra damage, with your base damage being 127% of potency.
This would result in Base Potency + 27% x 1.25

So a 100 potency attack that crits would be:
100 + 27 x 1.25 = 158.75

Where as a non-crit would be 127.00

Now add that to an actual skill (Blast Arrow)
And you have 600 + 27 x 1.25 = 633.75 potency

That is a much small variance than having DH included in the calculations, but is not including the weapon damage to get the actual damage. (I believe it is different for every job, for bard it used to be 1 weapon damage = 9.153 Dexterity)

I mean, that would be Determination's job, the whole "increase damage %" overall, but even this idea works better for sure so I can get behind this easily. At least now we have 3 stats to balance out instead of 2 (unless they changed "haste" to be a bit better and stronger)

Just don't get whole DH thing - plus it's also hard to see if you do get a DH so I never feel like it's a constant thing. Also I could swear that it used to have a single ! to show a DH and 2 !! for a critical hit, but either it was changed in the patch notes or im simply wrong).