Quote Originally Posted by Classikal View Post
Are you kidding me? Did you some how forget that River of Blood exists? I'm not saying Crit is be all/end all, I weigh each slot piece-by-piece separately. I've lost my share of Crit in favor of DEX/Determination since I hit 50 upgrading to DL. I look at the what I lose vs. what I gain. But, Toxote's Ring over HQ Spinel, the gain is not worth the loss. Shit, HQ Imperial Operative Choker un-melded is better than anything else pre-mythology, and a well-melded HQ Gryphonskin Choker would actually easily beat Allagan Choker of Aiming.

Just because something has higher item level doesn't mean it's always going to be better, it just has a slightly higher level range of statistics than the previous item level, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will have the best balance of stats required for the job.
I said nothing about item level. I actually used an Imperial Operative Choker until I dropped my Allagan Choker because it had better stats than the Darklight one.

According to every damage formula I've come across for this game. 1 dex is worth just over 4 crit. So in the case of the Allagan vs the Gryphonskin, the Allagan has an extra 4 dex. That means the Gryphonskin needs to have an extra 16 crit at least to make up for the difference. It can have a max of 12 which is 1 more than Allagan. So you still need to make up 15 crit somewhere. You also get 8 det from Gryphonskin. Thats valued even lower than crit so that clearly doesn't make up for it. So the Allagan is clearly better than Gryphonskin even when I completely ignore skillspeed (which the Allagan has 4 more of). Yes crit is important, but dex is a much stronger stat. I see no reason to use Gryphonskin unless you need the accuracy or you need vit melded in.

And yes, I know how my job works.