[Suggestion] New stat system (if stat points are kept)

[Ava]

This seems overly complex. While complex systems can be great ideas, they also serve to burden and confuse the new player. That's one of FFXIV's problems right now, in my opinion. We have all these stats, levels, elemental attributes, etc, and nobody knows what the heck any of it does or how they should spec.

[RichardButte]

This seems overly complex. While complex systems can be great ideas, they also serve to burden and confuse the new player. That's one of FFXIV's problems right now, in my opinion. We have all these stats, levels, elemental attributes, etc, and nobody knows what the heck any of it does or how they should spec.

True, but this is technically less confusing than our current system because players have no idea what each stat does without looking it up. I'm still not even sure which stats influence which crafting/gathering jobs.

This would take that confusion and toss it out the window. The number of choices would be daunting, but in the end, we'd basically have complete control over our classes.