Sylph.Gredival said:
Bahamut.Dasva said:
It wont.
The only point of using SB is on things with high evasion or def you think you'll be missing hits on or that craps your pdif so bad that crits needed to make up for it. In the case of def you should be using manstab instead of SB.
Also stacking doesn't skew that much on a ws that is doing 6+hits.
Well the whole reason why EV and DE would be equal is that EV's crit spiked numbers will drag up the average to compensate for a lower average. When you give DE a consistent crit you are minimizing the effect of criticals by giving each a strong first hit. In a 25% crit cap rate situation I'd expect DE to win if everything was stacked every time.
Stacking in this case does skew results, as it 'levels the field' in crit rate for both WSs first - and hardest - hit. In this case, Dancing Edge has by a long way the highest base mod - equal dex and 40% chr on top, as well as a 1.2~x att mod. By forcing this to crit, DE will already have a large advantage as evis no longer has the change for a first hit crit to balence the damages. After this forced crit, evis will always be playing catch up, which considering the nature of crit rates (outside abyssea), is unreliable and will usually be unbalenced.
If comparing stacked WSs, then DE will usually come out on top outside abyssea, but i believe the original meaning was unstacked WSs - as the OP's example was a 1k straight evis while 'tanking', one must assume that this is unstacked.
To the OP, i would say that you're current wivre augment is acceptable but will not cleanly beat the current neck optsions. With you're gear it will certainly beat tiercel but agasaya's or love torque may still beat it, especially considering love torque may boost you a crit % as well as the acc/att. Should you get lucky and obtain a 'perfect' augment on crit rate with decent subtle blow, i would believe that would successfully outparse agasaya's or LT.
