Quote Originally Posted by Exstal View Post
From what I understand, people want the ability to choose from a bunch of different "styles". They also want all them to be viable.
Ehm... that's a holy grail there. I know if they add something with deep customization, a lot of configurations won't be viable in high end group play. I'd be happy with best effort and just having that ability, though.

The problem with your example is you're mixing main stats with off stats/secondary stats. You can have crit without sacrificing STR, if only the pieces you need have that as an off stat. Rather than STR vs Crit, you should be fielding DET vs Crit. There's some interesting discussion to be had there but I feel that's better left to the horizontal progression threads.