Class attribute point allocations

Does it make any sense for me to be putting a little DEX on my Lancer? I was thinking the extra parry rate might be handy, but is it worth it? I've been doing maybe 1 in 5, the rest to STR.

Unfortunately there's almost no benefit to allocating anything but your primary stat (STR). you could argue that VIT is of some use, but at the end of the day DRG and MNK should allocate all strength.

The benefit of the DEX would be amazingly small.

Guess I should go get myself one of those stat reallocation items then, they're from the grand companies right?

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Originally Posted by Xenorexia

Guess I should go get myself one of those stat reallocation items then, they're from the grand companies right?

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Correct. They'll only run you 250 GC seals, which is cheap enough.

i could maybe see it if lnc had a tank job, at current he does not, and even then vit would be better

And it depends on class (referring to the topic), WAR gets a boost in health that allows you to put all 30 in str rather than vit, but for this instance, parry already scales like crap, adding even a full 30 dex isn't going to make a big difference.

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Originally Posted by monochromicorn

And it depends on class (referring to the topic), WAR gets a boost in health that allows you to put all 30 in str rather than vit, but for this instance, parry already scales like crap, adding even a full 30 dex isn't going to make a big difference.

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a big reason why str is so important on war is that war is built around self heals
and those self heals are based on the damage you deal, rather than the hp you have

war self heals are effectively comparable to blocking/mitigation on pld

Also, I wouldn't be surprised to see smn putting their points into piety with all that spell speed they are getting. In an old static, they started switching out stats for piety on 125