Quote Originally Posted by Vanguard319 View Post
sorry, but you have it backwards, brute force only gets you so far, and speed is absolutely worthless without the skill to stay alive long enough to close in and use it, therefore, skill has been and always will be more important than speed, and even brute strength.

Case in point: the zerg strategy for the Seed Crystal fight in ffxi was all-or-nothing and more often than not resulted in failure, the arrowburn strategy took longer, but had a better success rate, since you could recover after a partial wipe as long as your tank survived. Of the two the former was all about brute force (in the form of the best gear) and speed, while the latter required skill.
Unfortunately FF14, speed makes up 90% of the regiment. That's why people want FF11-2. It's just elegant in how they approached the battle system.

And thus the controversy of stamina bar. to use it for attack or defense, when attack is overwhelmingly effective, due to it's animation and damage estimations.