Stat allocation...

[Kimura410]

Sorry to hijack, but I think it will help the OP as well. What does it mean to be sitting close to the next tier of a stat? As Eightbit said above ^

Is each tier of a stat based on 100's. Like 100-199 is one tier, then 200-299 is a second tier, and so on? And does being in a new tier significantly improve your character?

[Eightbit]

Sorry to hijack, but I think it will help the OP as well. What does it mean to be sitting close to the next tier of a stat? As Eightbit said above ^

Is each tier of a stat based on 100's. Like 100-199 is one tier, then 200-299 is a second tier, and so on? And does being in a new tier significantly improve your character?

Ok for block percents, it isn't a direct scale with strength. You don't get a relationship like 1 strength is .1% block strength. Instead it is a relationship based on total amounts, like at 243 strength you will block 21% of damage but at 283 strength you block 22% damage. Sure not a huge increase, but if you can reach that jump it might help mitigate more damage than the 14 hp per vitality point (if the numbers I'm reading are right). Once again it is a thing of balance. I would not give up all my points in vit to reach a strength cap, but up to maybe 15 I would.

Source:
http://valk.dancing-mad.com/?page_id=227

Also would like to reiterate that this also greatly depends on the content you are doing. High HP deals better with high burst fights, high block strength deals better with long steady damage fights.