Materia Question

[Ghishlain]

I see your point, but on the other hand what counts in an actual fight is your total accuracy, including all spells used in the fight, even those that can't miss. So if I'm using the spells I'd normally use in specific fight, and someone tells me my total accuracy in that fight, that number is valid and the most important number to base my melding decision on. Now if I were to go in A5S and only use Broil, and I would ask someone to parse my accuracy from there, I would get my accuracy % for the spells that can miss in that instance, but since that's not how I would ever play that instance on SCH, the number wouldn't be useful to me.

I disagree partially and I do feel it is important to at least split out the 100% hit spells from the not-100% hit spells so you can at least determine the "important of accuracy" in your mind and then isolate for that contribution to base your final decision on.

Just to expand on my previous example, let's say this is an example parse

SCH total DPS - 600
Broil accounts for 50 DPS @ 33% accuracy

If you meld / eat to accuracy cap, your broil DPS will increase to 150 DPS and your total DPS goes up from 600 to 700 DPS (net 16.67% gain - with some loss due to not having Crit melds anymore).

I don't think there's much more I can add ATM but I do hope you do find the information useful.

[Lyrica_Ashtine]

I'm just going to point out that the accuracy "measurement" is horribly skewed when DoTs are involved on a certain tool. For example: Casting 3 DoTs and a broil, miss the broil and for some reason you're still at 97% accuracy.

[Ghishlain]

I'm just going to point out that the accuracy "measurement" is horribly skewed when DoTs are involved on a certain tool. For example: Casting 3 DoTs and a broil, miss the broil and for some reason you're still at 97% accuracy.

*Coughs*

Yep, depends on how the player is reading the data. It can measure DoT ticks too so Shadowflare (10 ticks) + Bio (6 ticks) + Bio II (10 ticks) + Broil (1 data point)

Miss Broil, your hit rate in total is 26/27 = 96%

[giantslayer]

I don't know if other people are doing it, but I've always been a fan of melding Vit into accessories. You can only meld Vit into the guaranteed slot on accessories. I've put Vit Vs on my first slot of my accessories and overmelding accuracy (using crafted 220). I haven't been doing the latest Savage stuff, but back in the day I had vit melds doing T5-8. When stuff went wrong, I'd often still be alive and the other healer (who was the more serious raider) would be dead.

As far as accuracy... just doing freaking ex roulette dungeons, all of my accuracy based attacks were missing between 10-20% of the time with base accuracy. It was super annoying. I imagine Midas Savage ought to be worse.

[Nekotee]

Vit was almost require in the final coil of bahamut because the attack hit hard back then even under scholar shield...
Now it's not that hard to survive if you got i220 stuff (i'm mostly crafted stuff and I can take most attack without problem as long as i heal XD)

Well after 2 day shitting on A5S... I might want to take one or two accuracy crafted acc -,-
Missing Malefic 2 is painful... Missing 3 in a row is more frustrating than not being able to touch Cid... *grml*

But... The fight is so much fun...
I was one of thre only one that read the strat...
And laught my Ass off seeing my team eating spikey bomb and gob-hook...
I'm not a sadist, i'm a healer. That's worse !