We're getting stat allocation back in 1.20, right?

[Physic]

This is incredibly vague. Yes, innovation does happen when something goes against the "norm". But they become innovations because they improve some quality or value of something somehow. Take for example Ford making the production line a standard. That wasn't a society norm, but afterward it became one. Or take for example the founder of facebook or many tech founders, a lot of them dropped out of college to form companies. That isn't wasn't a norm but that kind of trend could become a norm for many technologically gifted people.

The point is that people do step out of society norms, but for that to become a trend it has to be something useful. It's like natural selection. So in a game if people are experimenting with builds, eventually some build will come out that's the best and most people will follow that one and maybe once in a while experiment with something different. People naturally want optimization, especially when not everyone has time to try new ways of doing things.

Having mostly auto-allotment makes things more streamlined while also ensuring that you don't get stuck with a whm who dumped all his stats into str just for funsies, thus making you lose 2 hours cause your party kept dying.

in all honesty the whm who dumped all his stats into str just for funsies, probably wont play the way you want with or without stats. At the end of the day you need to ask someone if they can handle a certain role, and if they can handle that role, who cares how they stat?

If they actually do let people set their role in search i think it will save a lot of people time. If you see a Con in search with a role set as attacker, and you dont believe in that you can just not invite him. Or at least you can ask them, we need a healer can you handle this role?

[Sole]

in all honesty the whm who dumped all his stats into str just for funsies, probably wont play the way you want with or without stats. At the end of the day you need to ask someone if they can handle a certain role, and if they can handle that role, who cares how they stat?

If they actually do let people set their role in search i think it will save a lot of people time. If you see a Con in search with a role set as attacker, and you dont believe in that you can just not invite him. Or at least you can ask them, we need a healer can you handle this role?

I agree. But they do, stats matter. If you're playing in a party (and they make lvling harder and roles more defined) then stats will matter more. I can say I'll be a nuke Con but if I happened to dumped a lot in MND then that will potentially affect 7 other people. Is it a big deal? no. It does make things muddier and more a hassle though.

I agree that the whole role options you can put up in 2.0 will be great, but some base auto-allotment still at least allows some level playing field and know what to expect when a job is seeking a party. It'll be great for things such as if they ever introduce something like summoner, then they could define themselves as being DD rather than support. Or a mrd being a DD rather than a tank.