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[Aikaal]

Shouldn't it be cheaper?

I mean as far as itemisation goes, you need less accuracy and the reason why Crafted gear is so phenomenal is because it provides a balance between CRT + SS + ACC, whilst also providing equivalent raw INT gains. When you don't need the accuracy as much, it becomes a wasted slot on crafted pieces. For example, Crafted Accessories. There's nothing else you can replace that accuracy with, other than a gain of +1 in CRT/DET/SS. That's now a wasted slot and in turn, makes it better off to use i130 accessories instead, thus, cheaper.

This argument could be use so crafted are not that great if you start swapping crafted for 130 pieces.
You could take the Dreadywmr Earrings of Casting instead of the Platinum ones but you'd be short 6 accuracy. You'd need to remeld either the Circlet or the boots to get 7 Accuracy to balance.

[Dervy]

This argument could be use so crafted are not that great if you start swapping crafted for 130 pieces.
You could take the Dreadywmr Earrings of Casting instead of the Platinum ones but you'd be short 6 accuracy. You'd need to remeld either the Circlet or the boots to get 7 Accuracy to balance.

Ah no I simply meant having to have different peices of crafted gear melded differently to be optimal for each turn, not the price of needing less pieces of crafted gear for different turns.

For example if you need seven specific peices for T13 along with five, different specific pieces for T12 then you're melding a total of 12 peices which is an absolutely monsterous price-tag compared to simply using only Dreadwyrm gear.

Ah, yeah yeah you're right. I keep forgetting the impact of SS/CRT on BLM rotations. I got so much to learn about this Job

Thought one thing I've noticed with BiS solving for Dragoon and Ninja is this: If a piece of crafted gear with specific melds is calc'd to be "BiS", then 9 times out of 10, this piece remains the same even with Accuracy decreases. Again, I can't say that much about Black Mages, but it's something to think about.

[Aikaal]

Ah, yeah yeah you're right. I keep forgetting the impact of SS/CRT on BLM rotations. I got so much to learn about this Job

;o BLM is the only job that benefits hard from SS right now. Seems like SS will have a huge impact in Heavensward since it will affect DoTs :3

[Skeith-Adeline]

Did they say whether Spell Speed would affect the duration of the DoT or the amount of ticks per DoTs duration? It seems it might eschew some things if it affects the duration and not the tick speed.

[Dervy]

Seems like SS will have a huge impact in Heavensward since it will affect DoTs :3

Yup! It's going to completely change how Dragoons work - Even more so, Summoners!

I'm actually really bummed out, because I spent so long reworking DoT clipping in my Job Models for DRG, BRD, BLM & NIN... Only for them to announce this, lmao. Puts all my effort to waste

Did they say whether Spell Speed would affect the duration of the DoT or the amount of ticks per DoTs duration? It seems it might eschew some things if it affects the duration and not the tick speed.

Nope, they didn't. But, I'm waging money that DoTs will now have their own internal timer and SS will affect the duration per DoT tick.

[Aikaal]

Did they say whether Spell Speed would affect the duration of the DoT or the amount of ticks per DoTs duration? It seems it might eschew some things if it affects the duration and not the tick speed.

They didn't. There's two possibility. One is after a certain amount of SS you'll get an extra tick like in WoW. Second is SS will influence the duration of your DoT.

If it's first scenario, you,ll have capped SS for DoTs you'll have to follow. Second scenario is each point of SS will influence your dots so you can stack as much you want.

[HitoYuudai]

I love you, hito♥ /grabbyhands/

I love you, too, m8 ♥

[KroLeXz]

It's not about how much of the fight is AoE, it's about how much of your damage total is going to be from Flares and F2.

In my most recent T10, 103 DPS out of 580 was from Flares. That's roughly 18% that is basically independent of SS, as well as about 40 DPS from Thunder spells of sorts, also largely free from SS except for Thundercloud hits.

Argue what you want about the other 75% of my damage being more impacted by crit or SS or DET, but that damage right there is CHR and DET central. The same thing applies to T12 and 13 in varying amounts.

I can argue a lot of different point views there - will SS allow you get another flare off before one of the adds die? is SS superior to crit on the rest of the 75% dmg? I still feel SS is the safer bet on turn 10 at least.

[Aikaal]

I can argue a lot of different point views there - will SS allow you get another flare off before one of the adds die? is SS superior to crit on the rest of the 75% dmg? I still feel SS is the safer bet on turn 10 at least.

Nope. Transpose is 12 sec GD and it's nto affected by Spell Speed. Regardless of your rotation, the optimal AoE rotation once you hit transpose if F3 > F1/F2 (depending if you have 2 mana / numbers of adds alive) > Flare. That's 3.5 + 2.5 or 3 + 4 secs. 11 Secs if you use F1. 11.5 if you use F2. That's with 0 Spd on your gear. Lowering this number gives you nothing.

[KroLeXz]

So your casting a flare, and an add died before it went off...so your saying if you could cast that flare faster it would have no baring - I was not referring to rotation but the actual cast time of flare.