Just a note. Could people please not litter the thread with opinions unfounded by actual data? This is a fact finding thread, not a place to assert your opinions. If you want to say what is worth or not worth it, please back it up with data and a quantitative analysis of that data.

Quote Originally Posted by Phoenicia View Post
I haven't gone through all the tests past the second half of page 2, but I noticed no one is accounting crits.
Are you assuming the game does multiple rolls per attack? Because even with a one-roll table, it's possible that all the skills do is filling up the "remaining" attack table with parry. So for example:
  • Awareness: cannot be crit. It reduces the Crit section of your attack table to zero.
  • Bulwark: add 60% block rate. It expands the Block section by 60%, pushing off firstly any Hit, then any Parry until the full 60% is added.
  • Raw Intuition: push off all Hit sections and replace them with Parry.
This would explain how crit doesn't seem to be affected by the various skills, because it cannot be nullified except by Awareness, and the only way to push off Crit is to have such a high level difference that Miss fills almost all of the attack table.

If that is the case, we should actually be calculating our parry rate including all the swings, i.e. including the misses and crits. Else we'd be over-estimating our parry rate. Because as long as there are still normal hits, our parry hasn't filled the attack table.

Also I seem to recall some people say that block eats into parry. But under the one-roll model, as long as you still take any regular hits, your block isn't high enough to actually eat into parry.

So how does FFXIV resolve its combat events, anyway?