Quote Originally Posted by Naunet View Post
Everyone still ends up in the same gear in XIV. The only thing the lack of transparency in stats does is cause frustration among those of us who would like to fine tune our approach.
Have you been in the Drg rotation reborn thread lately? People keep testing more and the gear keeps changing. Lack of transparency causes frustration for people who have no will to make themselves better. You just want to be told what's best and go put it on... you can learn that from here, as you obviously know about the forums, and just do that.

People who actually want to fine tune an approach are doing so now, as innovators, not as lemmings. And there are still options; there are bards that are heavy into critical for RoB and others who pile determination instead and are parsing very well. There are mages wearing vitality rings because they like the safety the extra HP provides and found out they were parsing better, though it isn't necessary. There will always be people finding new, better, or different things when stats have some air of mystery. I'm waiting for the acc > SkSp to 4xx > det build... even though right now, I think SkSp sucks as something to stack.