Stormblood stat weights?

[Deox]

Direct Hit only applies to DPS, not healing. So you can use it for boosting your down time do I guess, but it feels inefficient compared to other stats that have 2 or 3 benefits.

Gathering data on Direct Hit is slow because it's not called out in the data stream, so they're having to do it by hand.

Looking at it from a sch perspective and it's always downtime just about for them so it should be a solid boost, direct hits not being called out on the data stream is a really weird oversight dang

[Sebazy]

As WHM chasing the progression race to some extent, I'll likely be maximising Piety first, then Crit. Efficiency and finesse aren't really on my agenda for the first few weeks of savage. I just need to be able to sustain as much potency output as I can for as long as possible

[MintnHoney]

Before SB came out, I decided to test the efficacy of my Benefic and Benefic II vs my WHM friend's Cure and Cure II. She had about 70 (rounded down) Mind more than I did, and I had about 400 (rounded up) Determination than she did. In the end, my Diurnal heals could hit a bit harder than hers, and this was even more pronounced when Nocturnal, obviously. On the other hand, she had significantly higher spell speed, so she put out heals faster. It also seemed like, for every bit of height my heals could reach, my heals could also reach a lower low point. Whether that is what happened, I don't know.

Now that determination is supposed to have been made more impactful as of this expansion, I should say, given the same scenario, even without sect boosts, I guess my healing would have more oomph, but I'd miss out on other benefits. I still grab determination though. If nothing else, I like the idea that my spells hit harder because I just really want them to.

[Kethic]

As WHM chasing the progression race to some extent, I'll likely be maximising Piety first, then Crit. Efficiency and finesse aren't really on my agenda for the first few weeks of savage. I just need to be able to sustain as much potency output as I can for as long as possible

I'm SpS Crit Det right now on WHM, and I actually ran out of MP in Omega this week, so I think you may be right to buffer Piety a little bit. I'll be dropping SpS sadly, since Cure3 is so effective in Omega Normal, and switching back to Crit. WHM can reach 20% crit rate in full Omega / Lakshmi crit gear.

[OcieKo]

Im kindof curious as to whether theyre trying to make every healer want a different substat, SCH/Crit, WHM/SpS, AST/Det, feels that was at least. But time and testing will tell.

Yes, crit was nerfed in 4.X, its potency increase was brought down, so you have DH mini crits, regular crits being a little less, and direct crits being a little more than old crits, but healers dont get the low and high end of that equation.

And they fixed the SCH Fey Union Direct Hit bug, so that may have been where you heard about healers and direct hit as well.

[Amaret]

As WHM chasing the progression race to some extent, I'll likely be maximising Piety first, then Crit. Efficiency and finesse aren't really on my agenda for the first few weeks of savage. I just need to be able to sustain as much potency output as I can for as long as possible

For that cases you most likely want Vit

[AlphaSonic]

I still think crit is BiS for most healers, SCH gets crit shield. AST/WHM gets those useless passives at lvl 68 proc by crit.

[loreleidiangelo]

My plan as a Noct AST is to go with crit, then either det or piety depending on how comfy I feel with my mana pool starting Omega Savage. EX Primals and regular Omega aren't taxing me at all resource-wise, but progression raiding is a whole other beast and I don't want to bottom out. I'm still leaning det for now though since speed on Noct AST seems fairly useless.

[Kethic]

I burned more gil, and Crit is just better than SpS on WHM right now. It makes me sad. The 120 spare Det you can stuff in there didn't make much difference, so I went with Direct Hit. I was pleasantly surprised by the dps increase. Doesn't help my heals any, but 24k crits heals are sufficient, 10k direct crit stones are nice when they happen, and DoTs can Direct Hit too.

So, for now, I'm rolling max crit and about 200 direct hit, with good success.

[Ghishlain]

This was posted on Reddit today regarding secondary stat weights. If you're going to delve into this further, I'd also recommend checking out Dervy's comment chain inside the comments as well for a bit more details and depth. Take into account Direct Hit is only usable for DPS abilities and we're healers so your valuation of Direct Hit will vary depending on your play style. Piety is also a consideration depending on how deep you want to get into progression raiding.

[edit] Given the power Direct Hit seems to give, I'd say go with Direct Hit for any casual content since MP and healing potency shouldn't be a concern for any non-serious content and you're looking to deal damage. Otherwise focus on Crit as their overall healing would outshine DET. Healers should start making shifts towards more PIE, VIT, and/or Crit as necessary depending on the Extreme / Savage content they want to participate in.