MNK Crit and Skill Speed recommended stats?

[EbonySeraphim]

It very hard to believe that DH doesn't help Monk's at the same scale as other jobs. I'm operating on the assumption that Direct Hits are proc'd independent of Critical Hits. Obviously Direct Hit does not help with Deep Meditation however, what Direct Hit does do is stack on top of a Critical Hit allowing an interaction elevate to a DPS crit alone cannot achieve. A good example of this is a Monk with a higher Direct Hit stat will for sure do more damage if you isolate Bootshine hits alone. Having more crit cannot help Bootshine do more damage, but a Direct Hit can. Same thing for any other Critical Hit a Monk is already going to land.

If measured data shows that Direct Hit really is a useless substat for Monk then I'm keen to believe it, but then it means SquareEnix must have done something to nerf this stat for Monk, or the idea that it independently procs separate from crits is false. I also find it hard to believe that SkS is more because RoF only has a ~20% uptime max (if you can/should always use it right off CD) while Direct Hit affects you 100% of the time. Without RoF it takes a boatload of Sks to lower your GCD. I think there's a 4.0 Sks -> GCD calculator and it starts to take too much of it to drop GCD below 2 seconds - somewhere I'm sitting at now off of GL3 alone and no real effort to putting anything int Sks.