This advanced theorycrafting section isn't advanced enough; It needs more data dumps and ffxi style math theorycrafting without all the deepz mumbo jumbo.
This thread is mostly going to be for dumping my critical hit testing, and with it should come data that can also be used for damage formula calculations. Dumps from other people are more than welcomed and I'll be editing the OP to include them. I'm a paranoid asshole when it comes to testing conditions though, so I'll be treating them warily.
I'll be keeping the data in this post rather condensed for now, and the google doc linked will contain the more detailed data. The things I'm keeping track of personally are Class and level, wDMG, Str/Dex, Acc, Crit, Det, Move, Used, Hit, Critical Hit, Miss, Low, High, Critical Low, and Critical High. My testing procedure is rather simple: I just attack striking Dummies in Whitebrim. The parser I'm using is FFXIVAPP.
One of the detriments to afk testing against dummies is that anybody can come along and put debuffs on your target. This can easily skew damage testing, but thankfully highs and lows can be accurately confirmed with a rather low sample size, so double checking is easy. Also thankfully, as far as I know, there shouldn't be any debuffs that would increase or decrease my critical hit rate.
I also want to test if higher level enemies give you lower critical hit rates. Actual crit % should work in one of three ways: Either a given "critical hit rate" will always correspond to the same crit % regardless of mob level, or mobs of different levels will give you different crit %s at given critical hit rates, or a given critical hit rate will result in different crit %s depending on the delta between your level and the mobs level.
Code:
Test # | Class | Stex | Crit | Det | Used | C.Hit | 95% Range
01 | 50 Bard | ? | 500 | ? | 5471 | 925 | 15.9 - 17.9
02 | 50 Bard | ? | 541 | ? | 7514 | 1466 | 18.6 - 20.4
03 | 50 Bard | ? | 547 | ? | 16802 | 3406 | 19.7 - 20.9
04 | 50 Bard | 492 | 585 | 261 | 32633 | 7387 | 22.2 - 23.1
05 | 50 Bard | 381 | 380 | 202 | 20466 | 1571 | 07.3 - 08.0
06 | 50 Bard | 382 | 457 | 237 | 34106 | 4605 | 13.1 - 13.9
07 | 50 Bard | 424 | 474 | 254 | 16383 | 2482 | 14.6 - 15.7
08 | 50 Bard | 453 | 518 | 219 | 33649 | 5931 | 17.2 - 18.0
09 | 50 Bard | 469 | 473 | 281 | 16178 | 2228 | 13.2 - 14.3
10 | 50 Bard | 469 | 494 | 245 | 34290 | 5579 | 15.9 - 16.7
Google Docs Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...FE&usp=sharing