Are "custom attribute-points" really accomplishing anything right now?

[Gyson]

I'll answer that:

No. No they are not.

The reason is simple; each and every Job has a "best stat", and the only real competition is between the Scholar and Summoner. Thus, there is no real choice, because the "choice" is simply "Do I want to purposely hinder my character".

Mentioned this elsewhere, but that completely depends on whether or not the content is designed around the requirement of min-maxing your character build, or whether it's just something the players have erroneously convinced themselves of being necessary (when it isn't).

If you can defeat all the content in this game with a reasonably chosen stat placement (rather than dumping every point in a single stat) then the system is working fine, and it's the players who are needlessly throwing flexibility away.

[Bluejay]

I would like to counter the OP with the proposal that ALL stats points be 'allocatable' up to some max limit per level. That would offer up some interesting customization options.

Though Square would never do it because it would require effort to keep things balanced and Square has either the smallest or the laziest Dev team I have ever seen in an MMO.