Bards and BL and Crit and RoB

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It certainly wouldn't be above dex, but I'm surprised its not above det.

Det appears to cost more item budget than crit/ss/acc, so it "needs" have a higher weight per point or it'll be pretty bad.

Out of curiosity, does your sim accurately reflect the fact that flaming arrow is auto-crit damage?

Actually no, my model has it as a normal ability that crits when you crit, etc. I read something about shadow flare autocritting; the fire AOE for Bards is the same? May be 'common' among persistent AOEs potentially sourced from dummy objects or something else strange. Doesn't seem like there's a really "good" reason why those would autocrit.

In any case, that would alter the weights to:

WD 7.849
DEX 1.000
DET 0.231
CRT 0.221
SS 0.130

Relatively small-ish dent to crit, although it's obviously dependent on the target standing in the AOE.