Stats And You!

[Neptune]

Since you are all discussing stat changes, post patch 1.19, I thought I'd pass along some info regarding the changes to stats that we received from Triairy. It looks like he left off physical evasion, so I'll bug him about it.

What time of magic is damage over time magic and is that affected by magic accuracy?

[Grudgebringer]

Also if you could be so kind to ask id there is a difference between attack power and STR on materia. From my understanding STR is a WS damage modifier, While attack power increases your normal attacks damage. Any way to confirm? And thank you

[Fusionx]

How about some information regarding like.. "attack power" vs STR? Which is better? I know for example in FFXI if you equip an item with STR you'll see your attack go up a bit right? But that doesn't seem to be the case with FFXIV.

[elreed]

How about some information regarding like.. "attack power" vs STR? Which is better? I know for example in FFXI if you equip an item with STR you'll see your attack go up a bit right? But that doesn't seem to be the case with FFXIV.

exactly that, i hope you can let us know about why we dont see any change in our attack power if we add strength and if theres a cap for those stats like no more than 300 points because from there you wont get any boost.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

exactly that, i hope you can let us know about why we dont see any change in our attack power if we add strength and if theres a cap for those stats like no more than 300 points because from there you wont get any boost.

STR, as far as I can tell, Boosts your one hit 1 hit WS tremendously, but as far as normal auto attack goes it pushes your damage output thresholds higher when pushed against Mob VIT. What is left over is the resulting DMG of your attack power VS Mob defense.

Basically, STR isn't exactly attack power. It supports your attack power by pushing it through the mob's VIT.

[Keftenk]

Nothing effects evade? Interesting.

[Reinheart]

Nothing effects evade? Interesting.

They making AGI stat into the game that will be for evade. lol j/k

[Tibian]

Stats should be reworked a bit for casters. Vitality should not be tied to enhancing magic, and piety should be removed as a base statistic. I feel that adding enhancing magic to vitality shows you are trying to find additional statistics to place to validate keeping some. Removing piety can solve a lot of that problem. Since piety and MP are 1:1, split it up to where 1 MP = 2 Int and 1 MP = 2 Mind. Magic evasion can be placed on VIT and enfeebling magic should be tied to INT.

Furthermore, get rid of that awful tiered structure (if it actually exists) of enhancing/enfeebling magic. Or if keeping the tiered structure, make the gains much much much more prominent. Ie: Tier 1 Protect = 81 Defense, Tier 2 Protect = 91 defense, and so on.

[Misha]

VIT effects Enhancing magic? *facepalm*

[Haibel]

VIT effects Enhancing magic? *facepalm*

That's not really a hard to figure. In XI Vit was part of the cure calculation.