What is the reasoning behind not separating Sch and Smn stats?

[WiseWolfHolo]

Basically so you cannot exceed at both. Imagine leveling 1 class and being able to effectively heal for sch and dps as smn, so in a duty finder with 1 class you can que as either. Meanwhile other players are forced to really play as what their selected class is. Bottom line SE does not want you to kill 2 birds with 1 stone. Anyway int and mind are slightly useless stats imo. With every int increase as a mage your dps barely will change by any means and same goes for mind, your heal without 30 min will drop maybe 40 points, but sch is a crit oriented healer so big deal about you base heal losing 40 when it does not crit. With crit heals granting a broken barrier it does not really matter if the barrier has that extra 30 mind on it, since it will only mitigate about 100 more damage. Basically just choose 1 to stat or stat it with all vit or vit/pie because again that extra 30 for either class is a debateable increase.

[Brises]

The reason is because they are all Arcanist stats. No jobs have stats, only classes do.

[SirSaber]

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Your answer is here :

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...SMN-SCH/page15

And also, XIV is not XI, they're different games based on the same franchise, that's all.

It's like saying "oh but in WoW you can do this and that".

You have to decide between SCH or SMN, that's all the reasoning behind it.

[indira]

10,000 GC seals can fix your problems if you want to respec.

[Pandastirfry]

I 'm sure once more classes have more than one job, we'll see them add the ability to distribute bonus stats based on job and class, right now only 1 class "suffers" from this "problem".


Why untangle the Christmas lights in July.

[EdwinLi]

Well the stat passives are for the class it self.

Jobs basically are extensions of a class role. While you lose cross-skill options, you are given more stats and skills that will improve your role depending on what role you play with that class.

[Jynx]

What's that the Class system hampering the job system? Colour me suprised.

Can't wait until they tear it out of the game one of these days.