Quote Originally Posted by whiskeybravo View Post
Is Alex Prime a good example to really be using? War didn't have Fell Cleave spam until SB, we basically doubled our amount of Fell Cleaves since Alexander, no? Actually at just a quick glance it looks like we've nearly tripled FC spam since HW. Alex prime around 20+ FCs, NeoExdeath around 40+ FCs, and God Kefka I'm seeing logs with around 60 FCs (prolly thanks to 90 sec spam intervals vs old 120 sec IR)

At any rate, it stands to reason crit FCs would've been a much larger chunk of DPS during Deltascape when it was being made a big deal because you had double the amount of them. You won't see it now since the majority of them are automatic DHC.
Patch 4.1. 1st two random top wars with same fight time and similar DPS I found on catastrophe (basically a training dummy).

Fight time 7:03 for both.

DPS Near identical.
War 1: 4062.9
War 2: 4053.4

AA Crit/DH rates. (Similar uptimes)
War 1: 123 AAs. Crit 29.3%. DH 17.9%. 22.65% total damage.
War 2: 122 AAs. Crit 23.8%. DH 23.8% 22.32% total damage.

FC Crits/DH
War 1: Crit 39.4%. DH 27.3%. 32.14% Total damage.
War 2: Crit 50.0%. DH 25.0% 33.61% total damage.

Another War high rolls FCs by over 10% and within 2% the DH of the other. Doesn't make a dent.

Again, these are just individual examples that bear out what the math already tells us. You can take the damage of FCs and calculate what changes in crit rate do to the entire set. You have to do completely unrealistic things to move the needle like "War 1 Crits EVERY zerk FC and war 2 gets ZERO but instead moves all those crits to Heavy swing when not under zerk windows." To start to see any noticeable difference, but the fact is that doesn't happen. The probability of something that extreme happening is near zero.

You can look at logs all over the place, but the math already told us how this works. These are just examples that show that. I didn't go fishing. I just found the 1st set of similar parsed/timed wars in both cases.