Skill/Spell Speed Should be Removed from Gear

[hydralus]

It's to provide variance in psychological feedback, and somewhat of an RPG "staple".

Yeah what you said makes a lot of sense. It's probably one of few ways they can instill variance with their by-the-numbers boss fights yet it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Sorta like games like Star Rail and Genshin Impact where for a long time it was just all about stacking as much crit/crit damage as possible. And for a lot of characters it's still like that.

[Shurrikhan]

I'd prefer if they got rid of crit/direct hit. Why should damage output have a luck variable?

I like it so long as it makes a difference on more than just the total damage dealt, but doesn't --directly or otherwise-- gate too many nor too significant of the rhythmic markers in our rotations. Take MNK, for instance. The crit gives some added APM. Because it has no margining, it also invites a bit of gambling: Do I hold for another GCD for RoF, which will increase TFC's value by 15%, risking waste of the 18% chance risk of 20% of TFC's value when overcapping? The best answer to that problem is pretty clear (hold it, unless you'd usually end said RoF phase 1 Chakra short of getting the last TFC in under that buff), but it invites a bit of foresight and dynamism because of that RNG. You're working with different timings and layers of potency contribution, improving the complexity of the math problem so that the optimization of your rotation elements is that bit more integrated with each other.

Direct Hit, on the other hand? I'd happily purge it from the game (and perhaps Tenacity and Piety, too, from among the secondary stats), merge SkS and SpS, have MP ticks scale with GCD speed, bring back more crit procs and ways to leverage them across most or all jobs, and then enjoy the inherently increased amount of Det, Crit, and Speed, with the latter two being thereby capable of more impact on gameplay.

[Thurmnmurmn]

It would be cool if we could save our materia to glamour plates instead of to the actual gear. That way we could have the same gear but different materia depending on the job.

[TomsYoungerBro]

That's only because people didn't yet parse the adjustments. Dark Knight shifted to 2.5 as their default BiS midway through 6.1 and even Gunbreaker shifted over now, though there's more of a debatable on preference between fast and slow Gunbreaker.

That is actually not true. The gear was still more beneficial at 2.45 during the asphodelos tier due to the crit/sks head/boots > the det/ten head and ten/det boots. The change to 2.5 came in 6.2 because of the gear setup