How to Bard Gloriously

It's a good general guide.

I think you should go into more depth between your own analysis of Crit BRD and Sk.Spd BRD.

For example, I'm currently built as a "Balanced BRD". I have an OK amount of CRIT and an OK amount of SK.SPD.

I can do either just good enough.

If I push more into SK.SPD, I would actually git rid of more ACC to get more DET.
If I were CRIT, I would get more ACC and sacrifice a little bit of SK.SPD and DET.

One of the reasons why I would do this is because SK.SPD relies more on shooting as often as possible, so your ACC doesn't matter as much. You go for about 97% and you'll have a stable amount of damage regardless if you hit or not because your procs make up for the misses.

On CRIT, however, I wouldn't want to miss a single shot. CRIT, in general, is a lower priority stat for most, if not, all Jobs because the amount of CRIT required to make up for the damage loss.

For example, a Dragoon never wants to miss because if they miss, they lose their combo or they miss on their Full Thrust combo which actually puts out the highest single hit in one swing.

For CRIT BRD, you never want to miss because your damage is a little lower for more CRIT. So you want to make sure everything hits. You don't want to miss Straight Shot, you don't want to miss your DoTs, you don't want to miss your Procs.

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It's really theorycrafting, but based on some assumptions and experiences. I've never been a huge CRIT BRD, I was always built Balanced or Sk.Spd.

I may just make a CRIT Build just to have something to do.

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