Please Fix Accuracy

[VirusChris]

I honestly hope they scrapped it, but wouldn't mind a revamp as well. I'm a NIN and watching my Critical Hit Rate that was over 1000 drop below it for Accuracy so I can raid EX/Savage runs including my Determination. I really dislike how it feels like I'm gimping my own character, but I suppose missing an attack is worse than always hitting for a lower damage rate.

I feel bad for Healers as they lack Acc on their gear to help with EX/Savage. Honestly it doesn't seem like they thought this one through with the stats.

[Cleftobismal]

I feel bad for Healers as they lack Acc on their gear to help with EX/Savage. Honestly it doesn't seem like they thought this one through with the stats.

True story. Increasing the reliance on accuracy was to nerf the classes from speed running end game raids. SE had a moment where they thought signs of speed running content with end game gear was bad.

[Frowny]

i guess, they could just remove accuracy, but still have the Blind debuff give a chance to miss

i got the chance to try a9s yesterday, and found out i need like 700 accuracy. so i melded a bunch of accuracy. but that sucks because, i don't need it for anything lower than savage, so it's just wasted materia slots. that's why i was thinking of how to make it better

Accuracy itself is a really useless stat. However, seems your mistake was not planning ahead. My MT spent some time using Ariyala's to make a build (including food) and only has a few Acc melds to push him and has a few upgrade ideas to keep it in check. Obviously not BiS type stuff, but the only classes that need more than a handful of acc melds are healers and I believe BLM/SMN.

Though that also proves how freaking annoying it can be, especially for casters... 592/3 is their cap but so much of their gear has acc that planning is an absolute headache.

[NolLacnala]

The fix is to kill it with fire along with Parry

[Eul]

Before you complain about accuracy, try being a healer in raid. Every other gear has at least some options with accuracy on it, except healers. Our gear has 0 accuracy. If you don't have the relic, then every single open meld spot needs to go into accuracy V's. That lv 250 prototype gear, yep needed to meld Accuracy V's on to it, knowing it would only last for a few weeks.

I have never hoped that a stat dies as much I hope accuracy gets shown the door in 4.0.

I even put accuracy stats on my relic for glorious over 500 accuracy so I can dps with "less" miss

[Rawrz]

Honestly healer accuracy sucks, but it's great at the same time. Never will I ever be unable to upgrade a piece because it would lower my accuracy below a working amount, since the new piece will receive the same melds. It's a blessing and a curse to have to work around predefined stats from sets.

[RyuSaarva]

nobody wants to die either so make enemies only heal you.

[Llynd]

I'd actually like them to give piety some accuracy ( like 0.25 accuracy for 1 Piety) so healers can get accuracy easier. That'd help them focusing on crit/det/ss so their dps numbers can get closer to tanks.

Remove accuracy for everyone wouldn't help us haha !

The thing is, we'll have no choice after removing accuracy. it will go crit/det or crit/sks and that's all. Having accuracy stuff was "forcing" us to choose our gear carefully. It will be brainless after that :x

[Frowny]

The thing is, we'll have no choice after removing accuracy. it will go crit/det or crit/sks and that's all. Having accuracy stuff was "forcing" us to choose our gear carefully. It will be brainless after that :x

Yes and no. Some classes are hurt by too much SkS so there is still a bit of a balancing act going on. Since raiders are the ones truly hit by accuracy, they'll still have a balancing act going on.

Heck, they may cook up a new stat to toss in (though unlikely, them even thinking of tossing out stats leaves the possibility on the table).

[LineageRazor]

The fix is to kill it with fire along with Parry

Honestly, they might as well go all the way and remove stats from the game entirely. STR, DEX, INT, MND are all basically identical in function. VIT is similar, but also grants HP. All these could easily be rolled into one stat, with tanks getting a bonus to HP. PIE is the only main stat that doesn't contribute to damage or healing, but the only players who ever bother stacking PIE are BLMs that are trying to reach MP thresholds. Just remove PIE entirely, give everyone a flat 1000 MP at all levels (like everyone has a flat 1000 TP) and scale spell costs accordingly.

Crit, Det, SS, while a few jobs have effects that trigger on crit, for the most part players don't stack for that. All they're interested in is the extra damage provided. So, roll all of these into the one stat as well! Defensive skills, too. The only stat on any piece of gear will be ilvl, and everything else will be calculated from that. HP, attack, defense, everything.

Do I actually want such a simplistic stat system? Not really. I'd love it to be much more robust, with EVERY stat mattering to every job. For example, WARs would need plenty of VIT, but if they skimp on MND they won't be able to survive those magic tank busters - and of course, they need STR to deal appreciable damage and DEX to make sure they land those hits. Instead, what we have is "stack VIT". This game, though, started out with a simplistic stat system that has gotten only simpler as time has passed - and now they're talking about phasing out the only two stats we have that aren't directly related to dealing damage. Might as well take it to its logical conclusion.