[Suggestion] Fuse bonus attributes / solve SMN/SCH issue

[giantslayer]

My suggestion still keep a choice and simplify things, solving the SCH/SMN issue :

• Magic potency (giving MND + INT)
• Physical potency (STR + DEX)
• Vitality
• Piety

It seems you really don't realize how much this would change the balance of the game. If both healing and offensive magic fed off of the same "magic potency" stat, then a SMN or BLM would heal just as much with a Physick as a SCH. If you can't see how that is a significant change to the game design and not just a way to remove the inconvenience of using hymns, then this conversation isn't going to be terribly productive.

There are two viable solutions to the original issue:
1. Make SCH have a separate bonus stat pool from ACN/SMN. This is the simplest and has no unintended consequences.
2. Remove the bonus stat system altogether and adjust level scaling to give people 35 more points of their primary stat by level 60.

[Sento-Frost]

Well, can you read thoroughly please ?
I'm not asking to fuse stats, I'm asking to fuse BONUS stats.

This would nealy be a cosmetic request, the interface show us a meta bonus stat instead of direct stats, and in the backend, 1 meta equals 1 point of each stat.
Just for bonus stats ! Of course I'm not dumb and asking to fuse overall everywhere mind and intelligence

[Greven]

If you use both SMN and SCH keep the all the bonus stat on INT. 35 MND is barely noticeable, INT is way better.

[Sento-Frost]

Will you stop answering that please ? it's not an option !
If you don't mind having 35 points less in your main stat, why don't you remove an accessory when you play ^^

[AxelDH]

I think it would be fine for the Bonus points to work as you suggested. (i.e. Only for Bonus stats)

Otherwise, they could just remove the need for an item to reallocate your bonus stats, and allow you to simply change them anytime you're not in a duty.

[kaox_reaper]

Will you stop answering that please ? it's not an option !
If you don't mind having 35 points less in your main stat, why don't you remove an accessory when you play ^^

How is it not an option? It's an option alright, you just don't like it.

[Sento-Frost]

That's also a solution AxelDH, it'd not remove the hassle but would solve the cost issue indeed. But if they're altering things I'd rather have them find a solution to avoid SCH/SMN being forced to reassign bonus points on each duty ^^

kaox, yeah ok, it's an option, let's run all around naked !
People spend millions for materias to meld less main stat points you ask all SCH/SMN to forsake here ^^

[MrSmiley]

Bonus stats are so incredibly pointless. The ONLY class that sometimes doesn't main stat dump is blm if they need a pie or two to break an mp threshhold. The bonus stats hold no point other making sch/smn annoying to play together and thats it. There is no real choice, because most stats do nothing for any given class. I really wish they would just work them naturally into the classes and call it a day, as nothing other than a stat overhaul would give it meaning.

[jmanfrw]

You can't be on BLM decide that you want to be a healer and put in another soul stone for a thamauturge and be a healer. Arcanists are one single class that becomes 2 separate jobs. That's what I mean by privilege.

Personally I don't feel as if it's a privilege at all. I'd rather level up SMN seperately since leveling as SCH for faster que lead to me sucking at SMN pretty bad, having to pick up a whole new set of skills at 60 because from 30-60 I never used SMN at all.

the leveling process helps a lot in learning a job and just jumping in max level with 10 new skills, new CC abilities and a new raid role is rough not worth the "privilege" when you account for the need for hymns and the loss of the leveling a class experience.

[Kingsnake661]

See, i just don't see that much of an issue. Why? because, they way gear works in this game, your going to more or less have one real main job, that's geared, that you use to raid with, if raiding is your thing, and really, end game raiding is the only time 35 points of anything will matter much one way or the other. For regular leveling, or DF runs, that 35 points you worrying about means NOTHING. So, my suggestion? Whatever job you seriously raid on, drop the points in. You'll still have more then enough ability in the other job to get the basic stuff done with NO PROBLEM. If you don't seriously raid... split it. Nothing short of the endgame savage mode raid is hard enough to sweat 35 points.