what will be the main stat for Rogue/Ninja?

[Kitru]

It baffles me how people can think that ROG/NIN competing with MNK and DRG for STR gear is unfair or corrupts the balance of gear pools. Does everyone just choose to forget that there is already another ranged class in the making?

The next 2 classes we're getting after ROG/NIN are going to be a tank and a healer, which will come with the expansion. Unless MSK/??? is a healer, in all likelihood, it has once again been relegated to the position of "vapor-class" which means we're not likely to see it until well after the next expansion lands which, according to Yoshi, is going to be at least 3 more major patches out: CT and coil are both going to have at least 3 layers and they swap for major patches; 2.3 is going to be new CT, 2.4 is going to be new coil, and 2.5 is going to be new CT. At 3 months between major patches, that's basically another year before we see the expansion and probably another 1-2 more major patches before we see additional classes added to the ones the expansion adds.

MSK/??? has about as much impact upon near term loot distribution (which is what we're talking about) as the Christmas weather forecast has upon your Fourth of July plans.

Tanks are supposed to spec VIT, not roll on accessories that have none.

It's kind of tangential, but that's more of an issue with VIT being a stat that is very easily rendered redundant as opposed to variations in main stat. I think that the devs should start adding free parry or def/mdef to tank accs to encourage tanks to actually use them (since that will actually reduce the healing they require rather than just increase the amount of punishment they can take before dying) rather than ignoring VIT accs for STR (or STR/DEX crafted) ones.