Originally Posted by
Rubeus
@Demonjustin: I understand where you're coming from. I do. It's not that I don't. But you're STILL neglecting the whole picture in regards to RDM. Here, I'll do the work for you to prove my point:
pillager/plunderer total +dex: +140
atrophy/vitivation total +dex: +96
hume male base dex on thf/dnc: 97
hume male base dex on rdm/dnc: 89
total difference in dex between a 119 rdm and a 119 thf, visible armor only: 52.
RDM dex in such a case if it were lvl 119 and not ghetto 119: 185
you're telling me that with +96 dex as a NATURAL state before any gear is considered at a REAL 119, your RDM has something to complain about in terms of accuracy/crit? I challenge you to find 1 mob in the game that isn't -real- content (in which RDM should probably be casting and supporting its party as opposed to meleeing) whereupon your dexterity score is going to be the deciding factor between the 1 hit or crit that would've killed said mob vs total defeat for you and/or your group. I would say Einherjar, as that's the only highly-time-limited event in which I can imagine a RDM meleeing being a crucial aspect of defeating all the mobs, but at 99 you're already at capped pdif anyway.
But you're not just saying dex. you're saying all stats. You're getting at the whole ball of wax, and I understand that. It's not that I don't understand that. It's that you don't see (to me) that if your character were wearing an Ark Scythe and Stumbling Sandals and nothing else, you'd still be at 185 dex. And presumably somewhere near 200 on all your other stats, and your pdif would be a non-issue for accuracy/evasion/all those other sprinkled stats involving magic and doing stuff.
No offense, and I have a very high degree of respect for you, but that sounds a lot like wanting to have your cake and eat it too. "But I'm still missing 52 dex over thief. :\" well yeah dude. It's thief. They kind of need it more than you do. 185 isn't high enough for you? ALL your stats being 185+ aren't high enough for you? I'm staring at my RDM/DNC right now and his lowest stat is VIT at 84, so presumably you'd be in the ballpark of 170 VIT at 119 naked. But you'd also have Rapture, Ebullience, and a third strategem charge at the much more useful RDM/SCH combo. I mean, me personally? I'd even be willing to take the same exact VIT I have right now just to be able to do that. That's practically a divine seal and a diffused amplification every other minute.
Yes, it's only +21 to all stats -- for the body piece -- but, and I hate to KEEP repeating myself: so what? Go find me some serious content that can be solo'd or in which YOUR stat differential makes all the difference and tell me that 185-ish to any stat isn't enough. At that rate, why don't we just petition for primeval brews to be a non-temp item? Because that's what it sounds like to me.