Stat priority for SAM?

[Furiea]

What are people general melding?
I know the specifics are still being look at... just want to see what people are generally melding on for their SAM.

[Jarinolde]

Most are either going Crit/Det or Crit/Hit, as those two are considered the safe combos to start with until we have more data for actual stat weights / priority.

I believe if you are going to meld Crit, you should also meld Hit. A good balance of the two will yield better results. If you aren't melding Crit (for some reason) then Hit/Det would be the combo. SkS is, at the moment, still seen as not worth melding over the other 3.

[Furiea]

thanks for the input

[yotsuffy]

To date, what stats are priority for SAM?

[yotsuffy]

The correct answer is this:

SKS to tier >>>>>>> Crit > Det + DH combo enough to waste as few stats as possible. If you're not hitting a specific SKS tier for the rotation you wanna do, you're playing incorrectly.

Thank you

So I should:
1) spend as little as possible to reach one of these skill speed range

Viable Skill Speed Range
457 to 811
1,370 to 1,725
2,208 to 2,537
If you find your SkS to not be in any of those ranges, you want to either meld more SkS or lose SkS without equipping lower ilvl pieces.

2) maximize evenly Crit, Det and direct hit, giving any extra to crit?

[Ryaz]

The correct answer is this:

SKS to tier >>>>>>> Crit > Det + DH combo enough to waste as few stats as possible. If you're not hitting a specific SKS tier for the rotation you wanna do, you're playing incorrectly.

Wasn't DH preferred over Crit for the longest time? When did that change?

[Mhaeric]

Looking at the current "medium sks" BiS set for SAM it's almost entirely DHIT/SKS melds, so it appears at first glance to be that DHit is king... but only because almost every single piece in it is capped on Crit. Only 2 of the pieces have crit melded to them, but they're also the only ones without maxed crit already on them. Final result is GCD 2.07, Crit 4063, DHit 2459, Det 1153 and SKS 1503.

The "high sks" BiS still only needs a relatively low 4 crit melds because some gear with higher SKS has to be swapped in to meet the sks tier. But it has GCD 2.00, Crit 4046, DHit 1856, DET 953, and SKS 2323, however, so it's the same story.

Crit is clearly king.