Whats the point of attribute stats?

[LalaRu]

I'm happy of my 30 vit on all jobs and cannot count how many times that saved the day.

Ho yes if you put points into the 'right' stat you higher your dps, but every time I'm told this, I will think that a dead dps does not dps, and a dead healer doesn't heal.

Take account all the above, is because I will PUG often so it is a necessity. If you are with a static and confident you will not be pushed over your HP low limits, well yeah, take that points where they belongs

[Nutz]

It's a holdover from 1.0 when you had limitations on stacking stats (couldn't go all in on a single stat), you had a secondary damage stat (don't know them all but MNK was STR/INT for damage), and if I recall almost everybody needed to allocate at least some VIT to not have terribly low HP. On top of that many more skills used MP so piety (or was it mind at the time...?) might be needed to some extent even for non-casters. More stats also did double duty for some things as well I think (Dex contributed to accuracy and/ or crit I think, mind or piety also contributed to magic accuracy, etc.).

As it is now, it barely makes any sense and for most cases may as well be absorbed into the stats you get automatically from leveling up.

[RylaiBluecrow]

When i was leveling pld, i puts 1:1 on str and vit. Mainly because paladin's agrobsucks so bad before shield oath comparing to warrior same level. And having aggro issue meaning a potentially wiping dungeon run. So yeah. After shield oath i dumped all in vit. Cause tank.

[Zorvan]

Meh, I've never even bothered allocating them. Haven't had any problems killing things and haven't died but maybe a handful of times from 1 to almost-49. So they're pretty much ignorable.

[Dement]

Meh, I've never even bothered allocating them. Haven't had any problems killing things and haven't died but maybe a handful of times from 1 to almost-49. So they're pretty much ignorable.

Of all the answers to this, this is the only wrong one. There's no reason not to allocate them. It takes less than a minute to do and is essentially like having an extra piece of gear in a stat of our choice.

[Zorvan]

Of all the answers to this, this is the only wrong one. There's no reason not to allocate them. It takes less than a minute to do and is essentially like having an extra piece of gear in a stat of our choice.

There's a perfectly valid reason for not allocating them.

I can't be bothered to.

[Lemuria]

There's a perfectly valid reason for not allocating them.

I can't be bothered to.

You can't be bothered to click on a few buttons for 10 seconds? I daresay you're going to have problems later down the line.

[BLaCKnBLu3B3RRY]

i mostly only change it up on PLD. when getting a new shield i will look at the block rate and block strength. if they are even i go, 15 in STR and 15 in DEX. if say for example, block strength is higher then block rate. then i will do like all 30 in DEX. it doesn't particularity make any significant difference... meh.

[Riepah]

I put my 30 points for SCH/SMN into Vit to avoid having to switch all the time. Being a bit tankier never hurts.

[Pseudopsia]

30 points don't scale with gear. The better gear you get the less impact these extra attributes have.

Unless we get a significant increase in points when leveling to 60, these extra attributes will become even less meaningful as better gear is introduced to the game.

For me right now it is a nuisance to remember to assign them as I level.