Damage Formula Thread

[Kenji1134]

Grad School has resumed, so my game time is being cut a little bit for a while.
I'll try to get some solid data for WHM when I have some time and compare it with the BLM data... hopefully they will match and fit the same equation.

But all in all... in another thread, someone, I think it may have been EasymodeX mentioned that Det "may" have been undervalued in a lot of BiS lists.
All of my data, even fugly incomplete data for melee dps and paladin, all shows the same trend... WD >>> Str/Dex/Int/Mnd > Det > Spd/Crit... WD tends to be worth 5-6-7 times as much as your main stat. Then Det is worth ~0.3-0.25 of 1 main stat, speed is worth ~0.2, and crit is worth ~0.19.

Again this is on a class-by-class basis, but the first 3 should hold for everyone.
Speed and Crit offer similar returns, so the order is very class specific.
Monk gets a buff to speed, Bards get free attacks from Crit, BLM can cast forever so speed is good, SMN's dps is mostly on a 3 sec global tick so speed does jack... etc.