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    Nahara's Avatar
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    N'hara Tia
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    Excalibur
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    Astrologian Lv 80
    Quote Originally Posted by Mysteran View Post
    Just a note... Attribute descriptions and what they affect can change class to class. Check out the descriptions of each on different classes and you should see it changing slightly. That means they could change the description for Rogues should they wish.
    No, it doesn't. I've just now gone over each job and looked over the tool-tip descriptions for all six primary attributes, and in all nine cases, none of the descriptions changed.

    Quote Originally Posted by Keres View Post
    There's nothing stopping SE from making Rogue/Ninja's melee damage scale with DEX. Lots of other games do it that way without issue: WoW, Dungeons and Dragons, etc.

    It'd really only necessitate a change to the tooltip text to indicate that fact. In addition, it'd provide some (needed) balance to the loot competition between STR and DEX drops.
    FFXIV is not WoW. It's not Dungeons and Dragons, or Pathfinder, or anything else. Just because it has been done in some other areas doesn't mean it must be done here. There's no all-encompassing mandate that any kind of stealthy rogue class MUST use DEX as it's core stat, regardless of everything else like core game mechanics.

    DEX is for physical ranged damage. STR is for physical melee damage. The Rogue/NIN is a physical melee damage dealer, and the easiest method for them to be assigned gear, with as little tampering with existing content as possible, is to give them the same gear Pugilist/Monk gets.
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    Last edited by Nahara; 06-12-2014 at 02:26 AM.