The Monk Temple

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The one about the damage formula. It's probably buried by now I guess. Edit: Oh right, I remember I cross-posted it on reddit and that forum moves slow as hell. So the link would be: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Formula-Thread

Combine that with a decent model or simulation of Monk rotation / damage and it's pretty easy to evaluate the values of the stats and assign weights.

Depending on your stats, 6 to 8 points of determination will MAYBE add ONE (1) damage to a 150 potency attack.

You seem to have a skewed idea of how much stats are worth.

8 points of DTR will add about 1 damage to a 150p attack that has no buffs (no TW, no DK, GL stacks).

The way itemization then works, that is the equivalent of 11 or 16 critical hit rate or skill speed,

Not really. 11dtr is found on items in the same budget as 16 ss/crit. 8 dtr is swapped with 11 ss/crit. Roughly 7dtr to 10 ss/crit.

The 8 points of DTR is equivalent to about 10-11 crit.

10-11crit is about 0.72% chance to crit. Crits are +50% damage. 10-11crit is about 0.36% increased damage.

You already have a significant base critical chance in the range of [5%-ish base plus random gear, probably around 440 crit rate plus average IR buff resuling in ~19% chance to crit].

The 0.36% increased damage is marginally decayed by ~19%.

The result is ~.29% increased damage from the 10-11 crit.

The DTR is +1 damage / 232-ish damage on a 150p attack. So +0.4%. DTR contributes to autoattacks more than abilities. Guesstimating +0.5%. The DTR is actually more like +0.9 damage.

So +0.45%

The 8 DTR resulting in +0.45% damage is > the ~10-11 crit resulting in +0.29% damage.

That's just napkin math though.

I'd love to see the math that tells me that 1% more critical hit chance is not better than gaining 3 more damage on every bootshine I do

Hum, specific to this: 1% crit chance is less than 0.5% increase in damage.

3 more damage is significantly more than 0.5% increase in damage depending on how much you think your Bootshines hit for.

That's like ... pretty obvious.