Connecting the DoTs: A Summoner Guide

[rosalynian]

i've been checking this forum every day for finalized stat weights and just now made a forum account, since i'm concerned with how wonky spell speed is that it won't get weighted properly. i suck at math, but i can at least contribute something -- here's a video back in 2.0+ era of spell speed's effect on garuda (not mine, however).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HneAv7NrIiw

not looking at damage here, just the speed of the attacks. the higher speed one obviously starts to deviate and go faster than the lower speed, and i don't believe they changed that in 3.0, but rather made ifrit's/titan's burning strike/whatever ALSO get affected by spell speed, since they were changed to magical. ifrit's autos, however, i think remain at the consistent 3s or whatever autos are at. it's like drg with skill speed -- their autos don't change with skill speed, but their gcds do.

as for actual damage NUMBERS i've seen nothing to indicate that spell speed affects those on pets, just the rate at which they use their auto-cast, but i have no analytical evidence or numbers to back this up. rather i leave that to the people who have the energy and will to test because i'm terrible.

also it should be kept in mind that garuda's and ifrit's auto-casts (wind blade and burning strike), while they have a potency of 100 and 120 respectively, scale differently from each other due to ifrit having his added auto-attacks. so 100 potency on garuda's "spells" actually does more than ifrit's potency on his "spells." this can be seen by just letting your pet attack the dummy and comparing the two, and was probably done to balance the two pets a bit more. SO, since garuda's auto-cast hits harder, spell speed for HER might have more effect than for ifrit. might.

the "enhanced pet actions" is activated with a 20% chance when the pet deals critical damage. it increases our spell speed by 20%, which is why it's ALSO a boost for pet's auto-cast speed during its duration. however seeing this in wind blade's/burning strike's tooltip is impossible since it does not reflect the change, which is dumb.

all that said i have no idea how you'd test if spell speed has any effect on actual damage numbers, because you'd need to keep int AND determination at the same rate and cut out crit between the two sets, but that's why there are people smarter than i. but as far as i can tell, spell speed affects the pets exactly like how it affects us -- we get faster spells, like on ruin, but it does jack for our damage on ruin and our auto-attacks. that seems to make the most sense.

but sometimes squeenix doesn't make sense so who knows. i just really want accurate stat weights. :c