Quote Originally Posted by Dervy View Post
Sigh. I give up.

It's days like this I wish I had 60 SMN ;_;
yeah it should help see what you are missing, you seem like you need some insight.

Quote Originally Posted by T0rin View Post
Don't you realize that the same analysis determines the values of both? If you don't have anything on SS, you don't have anything on Crit. They're both relative to each other, so unless you know how _relatively good_ SS is, you have no idea how _relatively good_ Crit is. You can't understand the value of one without understanding the value of another.
You don't need a level 60 SMN to recognized a horrible argument for what it is.
You don't have to stack ss to realize how crit works just like how stacking crit with not that much main stat is not the smartest thing for example, and yes, it's a no brainer when a stat is already that strong and so obvious. Like I said, again, I parse a lot. I look at my parse data to improve. Guess what? It works perfectly fine. I check other people's parses and analyze those on every level to see how it played out differently, it interests me. I have yet to see someone who can break a decent parse with ss stacked vs crit/det on mutiple tries. I've noticed how pot/raging/dwt with different crit rate values and it can make a difference of 40-50 dps in total at 3:38 min parse. I'm not talking 5-10 dps difference, i'm talking about way more. Stats theory crafting is nice but it's not always practical. Let's see how this goes, if ss is truly that good. People do have choices after all, feel free to drift away with this if you see something good coming out of it. Man, these tests do take forever don't they?