Quote Originally Posted by Kaozurei View Post
Another quick question since I keep getting mixed answers... at what point is prioritizing crit/DH better than going for Det?

I've been told that while it varies on party composition, a rule of thumb is to meld for crit when you can get at least 2,000 and have a BRD in the party or 2,500 if you do not, while others tell me that Crit is king even without a BRD regardless of total and others tell me not to bother with crit at all unless I'm in a party with at least a BRD, preferably a BRD and a DRG/SCH.

I'm working on gearing up my RDM/SMN and DRG. At what point is it better to just stack on crit/DH as much as possible on those jobs for general use? (as in BRD isn't always guaranteed)
Crit is king at this point because of how the stat calculates. Crit increases not only the chance of your attack being a critical hit but also the additional damage that critical hit does, meaning it scales exponentially. The more of it you have, the higher your critical hit does, and this effects everything you do, down to auto attacks.

Direct Hit, conversely, scales linearly. A direct hit will always add 25% to the base of the attack no matter how much DH you have. Adding more to this stat just increases the likelihood that the attack will be a direct hit, with about every 40 points increasing the chance by 1%.

Determination is a flat increase to all attacks regardless. It's a bit more consistent than the other two, but also the weakest overall, and really only used by WAR because of how their skills work with the other two.

Also it's worth noting that for RDM it may be in your interest to stack enough Spell Speed to make sure that you have the appropriate black and white mana levels available to you to use Corps a Corps for a melee combo around the same time as it comes off cool down. I'm still tinkering with this number, but it seems to be around 600-700 SS. Since that's your biggest burst window, being able to smoothly go into that part of your rotation will likely be of value, but will be higher SS than perhaps a summoner might want.