Crit and Skill speed on your tank?

[Awful]

Basically what Freyyy said Sks affects Drks to a degree but not enough to warrant any kind of big change compared to Det and Crit I have 850 crit and 740 Det on my Drk with about 600ish sks I tried fitting more Sks and my dmg was lower than if I actually had the 60 det and 70 crit I was missing. On the page of Blood Weapon you need so much just to get 1 more GCD in Blood Weapon and that's sacrificing even more det and crit to meet that threshold.

[Esp]

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Interesting. I am leveling WAR on the side so it's nice to know how much I would need to hit that 9 GCDs. Least I know now how much is too much, that is if I ever get back to leveling it. xD

[Jim_Berry]

Many are against it, but I don't know if it's a mental thing or what, but since I've been doing Skill Speed, I've increased my effectiveness as MT by a bunch. Currently, my PLD is:

iLv: 226
Crit: 648
Skill Speed: 629

I also cannot go without Steamed Staff HQ, which gives...
Crit (cap 40)
Vit (cap 37)
Skill Speed (cap 16)

That's just me, though, until I find something else that works better for me. I am comfortable and relaxed now, and it shows when I'm in groups.

I was doing Determination for a while, but...I don't know... It wasn't really working for me. I'll probably just have to try it again one day.

[SpookyGhost]

I've increased my effectiveness as MT by a bunch. Currently, my PLD is

You realistically won't see much of a difference speed-wise as PLD when stacking SS, however as long as you don't run dry on TP you should see better results than Det for DPS. I stack Crit/SkS on my WAR, but that's largely because Equilibrium and TP-free Fell Cleave/Decimate/etc exist (unless, of course, the SkS piece doesn't have Crit).

[Freyyy]

You realistically won't see much of a difference speed-wise as PLD when stacking SS, however as long as you don't run dry on TP you should see better results than Det for DPS.

Well the stat weights contradict this. Det > SkS for all 3 tanks. However, the difference between them is so ridiculously tiny that you won't notice any real difference in DPS anyway. As long as you're giving a priority to Crit while avoiding parry like plague, the second one isn't really important.

[Martin_Arcainess]

I tried stacking as much Skill Speed as I could a while back, and I was super underwhelmed by the results, specially considering the amount of money I spent on Materia lol. My theory was that maybe stacking a lot of SkSpd would give me enough time for a Fracture in between combos, and potentially a DPS gain, but it... didn't. I was sad to see that alternative builds weren't really viable at all

step 1, remove fracture, it's a major TP cost that over all gives you less DPS and might mess up your FOF combo with getting 2 COS and 2 GB in whilst it's active.