10k Universal MP Is Boring.

[AmiableApkallu]

It's in fact a solid argument to remove such systems entirely: If all players just copy the one optimally-mathed variant from The Balance anyways, why complicate the entire process so much.

Does this mean that Piety is one of the better-designed stats?

Because whenever I've looked at The Balance for inspiration, there have always been low/medium/high piety sets in the recommendations. And this tier, there are even max eHP (vitality) vs. max damage sets in the recommendations.

My take away is that even when the goal of (almost) every encounter is to reduce the boss's HP to zero, there can still be an interesting and real choice between maximizing damage and maximizing the probability that you clear. (See also: Strats that sacrifice uptime for ease of execution.)