Utsusemi?

[Alistaire]

It could have been a mistranslation. Could have meant physical DD gear(which would be mnk and brd gear primarily and drg(but that is armour basically)).
I see a lot of people in leviathan go: melee tail ranged head. That is just wrong. It's physical DD tail, magic DD head.

It doesn't need to be a mistranslation; the question was about levelling. Unless you think he meant DRG gear the gear for levelling has both str and dex.

But it's all a moot point because they've since said "we have it decided (whether it's str or dex), but we may change it". So either situation, whether it's dex or str now, it might end up dex.