Accuracy: Can it just go away?

[Nadirah]

Most of the people in here advocating adding reforging to XIV probably used Reforgelite or some other comparable addon in WoW.

I did. And had the mount for reforge on the fly.

And I don't want it here either.

[Nadirah]

You can't give players 100% hit rate and then expect the mobs to be able to miss.

Accuracy is a stat that makes you make choices. It's one of the few stats that you need a certain level before you start min/maxing other stats. So it has a purpose.

Interestingly enough, that's how it works in WoW.

Tanks can dodge, block and parry. If the mob's high enough compared to your level, you still miss. Level + 3 is capped entirely. Anything over that and you're SoL because there's no more hit. Bosses are always level cap + 3 for evasion and accuracy purposes.

[Adire]

Yes please.

I'm scared to think of future content without accuracy on healer gear.

I do not understand SE's viewpoint of "let's punish healers who want to play exceptionally by not letting them dps".

Punished for being able to play good...like what?

I don't think I'll be able to heal in the future if I miss so much that I'm literally forced to stand there semi-afk because people don't need healing and I can't DPS. Way too boring.

[Renault]

People already complain about clearing content very fast in a day or so. Accuracy is there to make it a handicap. Done. XI stat system is way better than what we have now.

Your lack of knowledge paired with your outspoken opinions on this game baffles me...

Accuracy is only a factor in Savage Alexander, as of this day. Nobody is complaining that it is too easy, and in fact floor 4 has yet to be cleared. It's not a handicap, it's an easy number to hit, but it's obnoxious to hit the cap. "Done."

[Erim-Nelhah]

Cuz it makes moves like Featherfoot and DA Dark Dance completely useless. I'm not down for everything in the world hitting when I'm like 50 levels above mobs.

Actually, it wouldn't. It would work by making dodge % not dependent on accuracy at all. Players and Enemies start with 0% dodge, and can gain dodge from buffs and abilities. This does mean that you can no longer stack accuracy to get around enemies gaining dodge stacks (griffin boss?), but it also means that you no longer need accuracy to be able to hit an enemy that's not actively attempting to dodge your attacks.

As for things far below your level missing you...those things should do negligible damage when they hit anyway, and does it hurt you to have to dodge AoEs to avoid getting stunned or petrified? If you really want this, ok...every creature gets +2% dodge and +2% accuracy (both flat) per level. Done.

--Erim Nelhah

[Waliel]

Then remove accuracy from caster gear. Give them magic accuracy, like we had in 1.x

How would that change anything? 700 magic accuracy would still be 200 wasted stat.

I don't really have anything against accuracy per se, but I just wish there was some other gear you could swap on or something, if you have hundreds of extra accuracy that does nothing for you.

[AsahinaMyLove]

lol...?

/jokes too
Okay then: lets remove crit too! Because its not woking everytime I hit something! - so... useless stat!

[FallenArisen0990]

Stuff.

--Erim Nelhah

Just no. People already complaining about how most stats are "useless" and need a buff and now we got people wanting the removal of stats. SE is not gonna go out their way to make the 1.3% of the population when we can make the other 98.7% happy with other things.

[Gilraen]

Yes please.

I'm scared to think of future content without accuracy on healer gear.

I do not understand SE's viewpoint of "let's punish healers who want to play exceptionally by not letting them dps".

Punished for being able to play good...like what?

I don't think I'll be able to heal in the future if I miss so much that I'm literally forced to stand there semi-afk because people don't need healing and I can't DPS. Way too boring.

Guess you glossed over the various reposts of the Square interview where Yoshida stated he was genuinely surprised at seeing that healers were DDing with the rest of the group when not healing. Square's prevailing view on healers till recently was that that's all they did, heal. Alexander Savage is the first time Square has balanced content with healer DDing taken into consideration. It's not that you're being punished, it's that you weren't really doing your job according to Square.

Of course, now that Square has done that, people are having problems with Alexander Savage's various DPS checks, like Square was expecting certain players to be doing something.

[Cakekizy]

What about making accuracy a function of your primary stat?