Lock and Load: The Reassembled Machinist Guide

[Myon88]

^That's what the bards are doing actually, Crit and a spread of acc+sks on relic to allow them to maximize crit on gear. I don't think it will be the superior option for us as our stat priorities are a little different though.

For us, it's not so much that crit is amazing (obviously we like crit, not as much as bards though), but that skillspeed does almost nothing for us. So while you could make a crit/acc relic to allow you to take the crit/sks shire gloves and alex pants, the sks on those pieces is a bit of a party pooper for us. For bards it's win/win since they like sks almost as much as they like crit, but for machinists my gut says it'll be a net loss.

http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/X2P6 This is what I'm using now
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/YFJ6 This is a rough idea of what you can do with a crit/acc relic
So you're gaining 142 crit and 208 sks and losing 325 det, personally I would take the det.

Machinist gearing is kind of funny in that we don't really love any particular stat. Everyone likes crit because it's the mathematically strongest stat, but we don't have any special mechanics like River of Blood (bard) that make it disproportionately better than other stats for us. We're not like black mages and bards too who value skillspeed disproportionately because of their casttimes.

The only thing that really defines our gearing strategy is that we hate skillspeed because its disproportionately bad for us (doesn't affect turret, 50%+ of our damage output is not affected by skillspeed at all), so instead of "maximize crit", it's more like "minimize skillspeed" if you get what I mean. And it so happens this tier SE was kind to us and we get to do both at the same time