Bonus stat allocation....why?

Since the devs are going as far as removing most of the reason to care about leveling other classes in Stormblood, maybe they should look at removing the bonus stat allocation as well? There's pretty much no reason NOT to just boost your main stat for the job you are playing.

I mean, I guess you could boost an alt stat for soloing, but the usefulness is very limited.

maybe some vit for salavge/pvp but ya it is a 1.0 relic.

It fit 1.0 but does not really have a purpose now other then frustrating people that play sch and smn

It's nice for PvP. But otherwise completely useless it would seem.

It's already been officially confirmed that they are going to / want to remove the bonus stat system at some point in Stormblood's cycle.

I don't really get it either. The points, my opinion, are the epitome of illusion of choice because there's essentially one correct stat per job.


Never mind how the numbers for other stats (such as spell speed) aren't exactly the most easily understood.

What is the most reasons to play other jobs that get removed in Stormblood?


And the only jobs that have problems with the bonus stats are Summoner and Scholar

Like elemental resistances and set bonuses it was probably something the devs added very early in 2.0's creation before they knew that every piece of gear in the game was going to be bland uninspired shit that makes you question why you're bothering to chase upgrades at all.

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Originally Posted by Felis

What is the most reasons to play other jobs that get removed in Stormblood?

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Cross Class skills are gone.

I disagree,

I like it... but then again I also don't play SCH much other than in emergencies.

I do like having those extra INT points, and I did distribute some of them into Piety. INT was primary, but once I discovered how much Ruin 3 took to cast at upper levels I did throw some in there as well. I realized in late game I needed the extra MP.

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Originally Posted by Silverquick

...and I did distribute some of them into Piety. INT was primary, but once I discovered how much Ruin 3 took to cast at upper levels I did throw some in there as well. I realized in late game I needed the extra MP.

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Placing all bonus points into piety only nets you another 225 total mana, and mana regen tick will only return an additional 120mp per minute. This means you'll only get one additional ruin3 per 10 minute fight. Meanwhile, you've lowered your damage ouput by, what, 3%? This is what we mean by illusion of choice.

As others have mentioned, stat allocation is a remnant from 1.0 where classes could make use of more than just one stat. Since that time, the stat system has gotten simpler and simpler to the point where stat allocation is now a no-brainer: drop everything into Main Stat and call it a day.

Remember when tanks used to get no damage boost from VIT? Or that DEX used to improve shield blocking rate? Pepperidge Farm remembers!

Here's hoping they'll clean up the character sheet a good bit. I imagine if they get rid of Resistances, they might be inclined to separate jobs into a Crafter Pane and a Combat Pane, instead of cramming them all into one, 'Class,' Pane like right now. As for attributes, I wouldn't mind seeing that cleaned up either. I feel like Piety could be outright removed and worked baseline into each main stat, so that for a WHM, every point of MND is some percentage of a point of PIE, so that at the end of the day, the numbers remain fairly equal to what we have now.

Accuracy seems to exist solely for Savage/Extreme content, so I don't think it should be removed so much as, perhaps reworked into each class's main stat like PIE, though at an increased yield. Right now people don't fret with Piety too much and do fine, even in raids, but Accuracy is needed there. So, make it so your baseline Accuracy gain from your job's main stat is about equal to what it would be, were the stat on gear, and allow for players to boost it with materia.

lol putting Hall of the Novice into Duty Finder... that's basically Guildhests.

No source on hand but like others have mentioned, I heard their removing it so. Can finally play sch/smn without having to click like 30+ times

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Originally Posted by NolLacnala

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Placing all bonus points into piety only nets you another 225 total mana, and mana regen tick will only return an additional 120mp per minute. This means you'll only get one additional ruin3 per 10 minute fight. Meanwhile, you've lowered your damage ouput by, what, 3%? This is what we mean by illusion of choice.

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Having a +12 piety on BLM is kinda comfortable tho. That little mana bonus is what we are missing for 6 Fire IV when you unfortunately end in a team with only WHM as heal.