Accuracy: Can it just go away?

[Erim-Nelhah]

Cuz it makes moves like Featherfoot and DA Dark Dance completely useless. I'm not down for everything in the world hitting when I'm like 50 levels above mobs.

Actually, it wouldn't. It would work by making dodge % not dependent on accuracy at all. Players and Enemies start with 0% dodge, and can gain dodge from buffs and abilities. This does mean that you can no longer stack accuracy to get around enemies gaining dodge stacks (griffin boss?), but it also means that you no longer need accuracy to be able to hit an enemy that's not actively attempting to dodge your attacks.

As for things far below your level missing you...those things should do negligible damage when they hit anyway, and does it hurt you to have to dodge AoEs to avoid getting stunned or petrified? If you really want this, ok...every creature gets +2% dodge and +2% accuracy (both flat) per level. Done.

--Erim Nelhah

[StrejdaTom]

Or...... you might look at gear before buying it and get BiS mixing Eso and Alex Savage gear.

[Renault]

Or...... you might look at gear before buying it and get BiS mixing Eso and Alex Savage gear.

You're missing the point. You don't get all that BiS gear at once, do you? Do you also control what drops in Alex Savage? No. Personally, I've already mapped out my BiS gear, and the order I'll be getting it. Unfortunately, with ACC so heavily weighted on just a few select pieces, it's hard to choose a meaningful upgrade path.

You might argue "Well then just get the pieces with ACC first" Ok...So that'd work, in theory, but then here I am sitting at like 700 ACC, which is in the realm of 50~ or some odd wasted secondary stats.

[Verius_Nox]

If not get rid of it, at least make excess accuracy do something beneficial instead of becoming a pure waste.

[Ibi]

If not get rid of it, at least make excess accuracy do something beneficial instead of becoming a pure waste.

The best option might actually be to take a page out of World of Warcraft's book, though it's slightly unintuitive. You would reach 100% hit rate with special attacks (i.e. anything actually pushed a button for) at a much lower accuracy number than was needed to reach 100% hit rate for auto attacks.

With that in place, everyone gets at least the low threshold (so that you don't miss an action and break up your combo), but accuracy beyond that is still increasing your overall damage by making more of your auto attacks connect.

[Yukiko]

In old D&D games where you could completly customize EVERYTHING it was such a fun to run dungeons with your selfmade team... but back to the topic:

Short easy example:
You have 3 bars from 0% to 100% all at 50% -> default
Lets say 1st is attack, 2nd is defence and 3rd is mana
Now modifying 1st to 80% -> decreases 2nd to 30% and 3rd to 40%
Next is increasing 2nd to 50% -> decreases 1st to 70% and 3rd to 30%

You can either have a fixed transformation or give the player a free choice (i like the free one much better because larger variation of different builds).
With fixed number for example: if 1st goes 3 up -> 2nd goes 2 down and 3rd just 1 down
Compared to the free choice: at default i have 0 points, for each % going down (doesnt matter where) i will get +1 point that i can spend to go up somewhere else

The Problem we have in newer generation games is that you nearly can not change anything... those 30 stats in ffxiv compared to 1000 primary stats on ilvl 190 is a joke!
The more stats you can change, the better the system with "free choice" becomes...

Edit: In ffxiv when defense goes up (gear) you also increase primary stats, the bit of variation of secundary stats is a joke too...

[Asierid]

There is no reason to have it. It just gives people this illusion of customization when in all actuality you end up with way more accuracy than you really need in the contrnt youre running. You really only need to use food in order to substitute whatever points you need. You're not replacing higher ilvl with lower ilvl gear over it unless you're in content you're not supposed to be in to begin with.

Get rid of it. It's not used in 95% of the content anyway unless you're fighting something 15 levels above you. Put one of the other substats on that gear and food instead of it being a wasted slot.

[GrizzlyTank]

Even blizzard understood that accuracy was ultimately a meaningless stat.

[Nadirah]

And give everything 100% hit rate? No.

You like missing? You like wearing old garbage gear? Oh, maybe youre one of the guys pushing melded accessories! Ooh!

[FallenArisen0990]

You like missing? You like wearing old garbage gear? Oh, maybe youre one of the guys pushing melded accessories! Ooh!

Nope, I don't meld anything. SE said if they deemed it an issue, they will start giving gear with more accuracy. Why get rid of it? We already have like at best 2 or 3 stats that matter. Stop trying to simplify this game more than what it already is. Pumping everything in one stat is dumb enough as it is as a game design.

They could add to cleric stance +100% accuracy.

10% at best.