How are you handling your Novus upgrade?

[Ranzan]

I want people opinion on if 9 critical and 6 determination worth blowing up my remaining Gil supply? So far after all the SBing I did the rngesus felt I needed piety and spell speed 4 instead of the material I need. (Sch novus)

[Gracielle]

I'm thinking of redoing my Novus because I didn't max Crit due to lack of gil when I made it.

Mine's currently at 44 (35+9) Acc, 30 Crit and 10 Det.

The new patch lets you re-do the stats without having to start from scratch. I'm having trouble deciding between 44 Crit + 31 Acc or 44 Crit + 31 Det. I dps quite heavily on turns 8 and 9, but I'm scared the new patches will be different.

Going Crit/Det is a lot more work (35 Alex) and is more expensive. With the Crit/Acc route I only need to redo 14 Alex. I've read about going either way but I still can't decide. Help me?

[MomomiMomi]

I'm thinking of redoing my Novus because I didn't max Crit due to lack of gil when I made it.

Mine's currently at 44 (35+9) Acc, 30 Crit and 10 Det.

The new patch lets you re-do the stats without having to start from scratch. I'm having trouble deciding between 44 Crit + 31 Acc or 44 Crit + 31 Det. I dps quite heavily on turns 8 and 9, but I'm scared the new patches will be different.

Going Crit/Det is a lot more work (35 Alex) and is more expensive. With the Crit/Acc route I only need to redo 14 Alex. I've read about going either way but I still can't decide. Help me?

I don't play SCH, but personally I'd probably say the Acc. I doubt we're very likely to get another Acc option.

[NeoZanther]

I'm still debaiting on how to build my Sch wep. I'm only 3 books away and collecting Alex (recently finished Bard Novus). I know i'll go crit and will stop at the 33 cap (or 30 if i want to even out another stat) and put on Det but I'm still iffy about doing SS. 40 is a hard number to loose but considering the low amount of SS I have anyway I'm only getting .05 sec shaved off of my two main heals (with a .06 recast reduction). So debaiting if it's worth trying to keep at least part of that 40 (something like 30) and only cut Determination by 3 and hope that the 30 crit makes up for a slight loss in Det. Or Do up to tier III for crit and det and dump rest into SS or acc or even piety.

[Cynfael]

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SS is arguably the biggest waste for healing since the main benefit of it isn't how much time you can cut off of each cast, but how many extra actions you can execute over a period of time with the decreased casting time and reduced GCD delay. Since "always be casting" isn't the healer playstyle, the greatest benefit of stacking SS is wasted (this is why SS is great for BLMs and crap for every other caster).

ACC isn't a bad tertiary stat to help reduce misses while DPSing Coil.

PIE is hardly necessary, but a tiny smidge of PIE is certainly better than a tiny smidge of SS.

Short Answer: Don't prioritize SS as SCH at all. You can lose all of it and not notice a difference.

[Hollowed]

I am using PIE and SS, PIE because well, need moar MPs! Spell speed because almost every single ability we have is on the GCD, while you need a large amount to notice the different, when stacked high enough that extra few split seconds is the difference between a dead tank and clutch cure. Moral of the story: More spell speed makes healing more forgiving for a WHM.

P.S. It also buffs PoM.