We Really Need To Talk About The State And Path Of FFXIV

[Magic-Mal]

To be fair, I don't think the devs even knew that the theorycrafters would produce what would be BiS stat weights for jobs/particular BiS builds for each job. WARs are highly encouraged to go with a Crit meld, while PLDs are intended to be built with a DH meld, with DRK leaning more towards Crit with some DH, from what I last saw. That may have changed, though - I haven't been around that much since July, so I dunno if that still holds true, or if there were any other changes to what 4.3 tanks should be using now.

Oh they knew. They knew since HW at the very least, when the "STR Tank" craze got big. They figured out the theorycrafted builds with STR and decided to nerf strength to only give half a point of "damage" and added a damage effect to VIT to encourage players to wear VIT jewelry over STR jewelry. They then reverted the change after alot of backlash. Then they nerfed it AGAIN for some reason. And finally, SB rolls up, reverts the change for a 3rd time and they make it so tanks CANT wear DPS jewels at all. Creating Tenacity as the "compromise". Unfortunately, I hear Tenacity is a worthless stat because the effects of the stat are so tiny that you'd need a ridiculous amount of tenacity just to see a difference compared to something like Determination or Direct Hit.

It's like filling a container with sourdough pretzels(Direct Hit) vs filling it with Cocoa Krispies(Tenacity).