Just a small update. Did a quick test with different base damage on BRD with different arrows on R52 Halberdiers. Rate for auto-attack was 0.945 and for Heavy Shot was 1.503. There is probably some error since I only used 3 data points, but that should be sufficient enough to get an idea. An interesting notion is that if gear swapping ever becomes streamlined, gear swapping triple crit melded weapons instead of Ifrit Weapons for Blindside Howling Fist/Doom Spike could be pretty effective (200-300 dmg bonus in a crit set). Still that probably won't be useful until 2.0~

Also to answer Clair's question, I tested both naked and with max ATK gear (700+) and it was still a +39/+39/+40 bonus