Quote Originally Posted by wereotter View Post
I went with direct hit as my other secondary stat on monk because I like seeing the enormous numbers on a direct critical hit, one and stick to it, it likely won't make a massive difference between one or another. I went with direct hit as my other secondary stat on monk because I like seeing the enormous numbers on a direct critical hit, but there's the argument that skill speed might be better since more hits more often means more chakras, and potentially more hits under Riddle of Fire.
You picked right -- direct hit is technically the second best, with determination coming in close after it.

The problem with Skillspeed is they made sure to have it boost autoattacks and DoTs, which was nice, but it still doesn't do anything for oGCD attacks. This is over 15% of a Monk's DPS (not counting TFC, since SS's added Chakra gains makes SS about as valuable for TFC as it is for other on-GCD skills). In addition, with too much SS you end up clipping Demolish early since they removed our filler weaponskills (rip Fracture and ToD). That said, SS isn't a bad stat for monk, it's just below Determination even with all that stuff considered.

Really it's pretty garbage for:
MCH (screws with overheat timing for wildfires),
Bard (mostly 'cause crit is just so bonkers good, but also because it has no effect on their plethora of oGCDs),
Dragoon (tons of oGCDs, also results in clipping buff/debuff/dot),
Ninja (mudra GCD clipping and heaps of oGCDs), and
Red Mage (timings on their gauge fillers).

I know some jobs do like themselves some SS, including BLM (who has no oGCDs) and Samurai (since their oGCDs are based off their Kenki gauge, which is directly boosted by SS use), and some like getting to a certain threshold (DRG has one, but IIRC it's really easy to hit, like one or two SS pieces which is damn near unavoidable anyway.)