Ninja: Walk in shadow.

[NoctisUmbra]

We know what you are saying. But you want to completely alter stats to just have your balance put into place, not for the actual sense of making NIN a DEX based class. That is why you make no sense. You would make more sense if you said "They should of put gun class in before Ninja to balance the loot tables.". There is no need to change how stats work in this game to cater to one job and how the loot distribution is right now.

I further emphasized that with the way the stats are worded now, there will inevitably be a growing imbalance because physical melee jobs are more abundant in number than physical ranged jobs. But sure, chose not to actually address what I'm saying and suggest I make no sense and that you understand me whilst demonstrating that you don't.

[Velhart]

I further emphasized that with the way the stats are worded now, there will inevitably be a growing imbalance because physical melee jobs are more abundant in number than physical ranged jobs. But sure, chose not to actually address what I'm saying and suggest I make no sense and that you understand me whilst demonstrating that you don't.

That is irrelevant, SE can as easily make more ranged damage dealers. Who exactly expected a job like Corsair, or making a Bard a ranged DPS for that matter?

[NoctisUmbra]

That is irrelevant, SE can as easily make more ranged damage dealers. Who exactly expected a job like Corsair, or making a Bard a ranged DPS for that matter?

So SE will make a large number of physical ranged jobs to utilize their narrow definition of DEX as it is now in a manner balanced with melee jobs. Furthermore, there will be new casters added, who are also traditionally ranged.

A significant number of the DPS jobs in the game will be ranged. Nice.

The way DEX is defined now, either DEX remains an under-utilized stat, or the game's DPS roster becomes heavily ranged. Can't have both, unfortunately. That is unless they broaden the scope of DEX or INT, so INT is used for physical attacks at melee range for some magical knight type jobs or DEX is used at melee range for scout or other precision-over-power type jobs.


Ultimately, to clarify, I'm not suggesting that DEX will be the stat for Rogue and Ninja for sure. Nobody can say that. I am simply countering any notion that STR is essentially guaranteed to be the stat, and suggesting that they can feasibly go with STR or DEX at this point. In addition to that, I am giving reasons for why I, personally, think DEX would be the wiser choice.