AST melds

[Watachy]

I wish some of the other classes had more reactive "choices" to handle content like Astros do right now. It would make the game more fun <3

Well this sounds like including a skill tree into the game. Don't misunderstand me, im a huge skill tree fan (The GW2 one was so guud before everyone rushed berserker) that thing permit to people to play differently than others of the same jobs and potentially bring up new things to the party.
Thing is, actually, there only the AST that permit himself to change his stats and look for different optimisation since he's the only that got 2 gameplays.

But i will definitely say this: even if you don't wanna play around crit a lot, you might take some since the recent Benefic 2 change scales too damn good with crit ^^

[Miyha]

I stat Det/Crit and find that that works really well for me. I'm always in a main heal role though, so I like having the high potency heals. If off-healing, I would maybe socket Acc until cap, then either crit or piety. (Only really experienced with socketing for SCH as an off-healer, which would be Acc/Crit.)

[Taika]

An update to the discussion: Dervy has posted updated 3.4 stat weights. They include healer DPS stat weights for WHM and SCH now, and his conclusion is "If you’re going to be hybrid healing/shielding, I’d recommend prioritising Crit over any of the other secondaries (with the exception of accuracy)". Source is here: https://dervyxiv.wordpress.com/stat-weights

AST not mentioned but the weights should be similar if not identical to WHM.

[Rennies]

Why are White Mage's weights so low compared to Scholar :L

At least this reaffirms my belief in heavy crit stacking.

[Katlyna]

Dervy has posted updated 3.4 stat weights. They include healer DPS stat weights for WHM and SCH now, and his conclusion is [B]"If you’re going to be hybrid healing/shielding, I’d recommend prioritizing Crit over any of the other secondaries (with the exception of accuracy)

Just be aware... Dervy's statement/number there doesn't include any Astrologer computations and they don't include any healing or shielding computations for any of the classes. The crit statement is a blanket recommendation (which is sound) but has lots of holes that he is aware of.