Updated 31/10/2016 18:30 GMT – Added the Dark Knight, shockingly bad Parry weight.

If you want Machinist Stat-weights done, I’ll need a community effort of people gathering data points for machinist turret damage at level 60. People will need to use random WD/DET/DEX values to figure out how they scale (including 0 WD/broken weapon), as well as identify the base CRT value of Turrets (if they crit). I do not have 60 Machinist and no longer have sub for FFXIV as I don’t have time to play.

However, if people get me the data I need, I can create a damage model for Turrets and with Japanese Formulas, create a very quick MCH spreadsheet (similar to the rest of my sheets) and calculate the weights in my limited free time.

Paladin

STR: 1.000

VIT: 1.000

WD: 26.523

DET: 0.396

CRT: 0.541

Sw/Oath SS: 0.274

Sh/Oath SS: 0.330

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Warrior w/ Deliverance

STR: 1.000

VIT: 1.000

WD: 27.095

DET: 0.387

CRT: 0.546

SS (Once at 550+ for 9 GCD Berserk/ x3 Fell): 0.350

Warrior w/ Defiance removed, as there’s less than 0.05 variation between the two sets this tier, thus no notable DPS or BiS difference.

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Dark Knight

STR: 1.000

VIT: 1.000

WD: 26.547

DET: 0.380

CRT: 0.530

SS: 0.315

Parry: 0.011

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Dragoon:

WD: 14.956

STR: 1.000

DET: 0.207

CRT: 0.279

SS: 0.170

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Monk:

WD: 15.459

STR: 1.000

DET: 0.212

CRT: 0.297

SS: 0.173

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Ninja:

WD: 15.195

DEX: 1.000

DET: 0.210

CRT: 0.282

SS: 0.141

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Bard w/ Wanderer’s Minuet:

WD: 16.824

DEX: 1.000

DET: 0.215

CRT: 0.366

SS: 0.233

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** Black Mage **

WD: 11.884

INT: 1.000

DET: 0.206

CRT: 0.256

SS: 0.283

Yes. The SS weight is not 0.4. Both myself and a few others absolutely do not believe it at all; and the raw data of exponential scaling of SS does NOT scale twice as much as Crit. The *only* potential time where SS will be worth that much, is if you’re doing one of two things:

A) Comparing the base exponential increase of SS, vs the increase of 1 point of SS allowing you to get an additional cast within the same time frame, which has many flaws. I can use this exact same method to skew the Dragoons SS weighting above Critical Hit Rating if I wished to.

B) Comparing the base exponential increase of SS, vs the next threshold of SS. In which case, 25/26 points of SS are worth exactly the same, disproportionately skewing the weighting of SS. Whilst this does reflect more real-world values, this would go completely against the methodology which myself, Sunny Hirose and Krindor use.

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Summoner w/ Garuda – No book smacking:

WD: 11.835

INT: 1.000

DET: 0.192

CRT: 0.287

SS: 0.195

Summoner w/ Ifrit removed: 0.03 averaged variation between Ifrit/Garuda this tier, for some strange reason. Must be to do with the insane amounts of SS.

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Healer Weights are calculated PURELY for full time DPS. For science only; take these weights with a grain of salt. These weights do not take into account Mana consumption, or ANY form of healing/shielding. If you’re going to be hybrid healing/shielding, I’d recommend prioritising Crit over any of the other secondaries (with the exception of accuracy).

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White Mage DPS ONLY:

WD: 9.128

INT: 1.000

DET: 0.159

CRT: 0.182

SS: 0.135

Acc: Cap it

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Scholar DPS ONLY:

WD: 9.128

INT: 1.000

DET: 0.190

CRT: 0.266

SS: 0.316 – 0.366

Acc: Cap it

The reason why the Scholars SS weighting is high, is that roughly 51% of its overall DPS is coming from DoTs. So not only is SS buffing your DPS exponentially due to how it affects your GCD/Casts, but its value is being amplified by also increasing directly affecting 50% of your total PPS via DoTs.

Also, the weighting scholar DPS varies a lot depending on the rotation you use for some reason. It could be an error with my model somewhere handling clipped dots though. Letting your DoTs completely drop, rather than clipping them, boosts the SS weight by 0.5. This is something I’ll be looking into and trying to figure out and does look like it to be a DPS gain, over clipping them.

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Why are Tank Secondaries valued so much? Well Jeff, that’s very easy to answer. Apparently, the word on the street is that VIT/STR scale AP, or Attack Power, 0.45 per point.

In other words, 1 VIT/STR = 0.45 AP, or if we reverse this…. 2.222 VIT/STR = 1 AP, because 1/0.45 = 2.222.

This would literally make the AP: STR/VIT weights be:

AP: 1.000

VIT: 0.450

STR: 0.450

All I’ve done, is scaled up VIT/STR to equal 1 point of AP, or multiplied the VIT/STR weights by 2.222… But as I’ve scaled up VIT/STR, I also need to scale up all of the other secondaries.

If you wanted to see the weights in their “natural” format, you’d simply divide all the values by 2.222. As an example, the weights for a Warrior in Defiance, not scaling up to 1 AP, would be roughly:

AP: 1.000

STR: 0.450

VIT: 0.450

DET: 0.136

CRT: 0.170

SS: 0.125

As you can see, even in this format, the difference between Secondaries and VIT/STR are still small.

Another thing you can check, is the ratio between STR/VIT and CRT, so you can see that the scaled up values are similar.

0.450 / 0.170 = 2.647

1 / 0.378 = 2.646

Of course, all numbers you’re seeing here have been rounded up, so there will be a slight difference.

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What’s up with SS and Bard?! Why did it Jump up so much?

The most important thing is the Function of a Bow Mage…

Bow Mage is basically a Black Mage

Is a Turret-DPS. Stand in one spot and PewPew

Has cast times, on top of a recast time. Quicker the cast time, quicker the Job can land hits.

Does not use Auto-Attacks

Okay, so let’s go into the Auto-Attacks, as this is the primary reason why Bards SS is valued highly.

With a Standard Job, or a Bard who’s not in Minuet, 1 point of AP/DET/CRT is scaling not only their Auto-Attacks, but their GCDs. The effectiveness of AP/DET/CRT, whilst a Job is using Auto-Attacks, will always be greater than SS, as all SS can affect are the Jobs GCDs.

When you remove the Auto-Attacks, your Stats are now only affecting one thing; your GCDs.

This relationship is reflected in the Stat-Weights.

Next, is how Determination functions. It’s a linear stat, meaning, whilst every point of DET you add on will be exactly the same as the previous, the percentage effectiveness will always be decreasing as your DET increases.

SS on the other hand, exponentially increases your DPS per point you gain. It’s effectiveness will always get better the more you stack, hence why Casters stack so much of it.

You can read more about SS exponential gains via this link:

So as our SS increases, the effectiveness on our DPS increases, but as our DET increases, it’s effectiveness decreases.

The one thing I’ll point out now, just so people aren’t confused as to why Stat-Weights increased across the board for all Jobs, is because they scale off AP. More AP, the more our secondaries are valued.