Transparency: Potencies and Secondary Stats

[RiceisNice]

This is a holdover from FFXI's method of handling stats. It's meant to encourage player collaboration and data sharing.

Sans the players opinions, this is discouraged from the game's ToS (use of parsers), ingame mentioning, and at best, discussion of it on the forums. I think someone here acutally got banned for discussing the numbers and is pretty much left to posting his findings on a blog.

The most we can really go about doing is saying "I'm not getting any reported misses with X accuracy" or "I need X amount of skill speed to reduce my GCD by .01 seconds", which then does not account for it's affect on DoTs and summoner pet damage.

[Hivernica]

Sans the players opinions, this is discouraged from the game's ToS (use of parsers), ingame mentioning, and at best, discussion of it on the forums. I think someone here acutally got banned for discussing the numbers and is pretty much left to posting his findings on a blog.

Yep, it was Dervy, who figured out the stat weights given earlier in this very thread.

[Mykaelus]

Sans the players opinions, this is discouraged from the game's ToS (use of parsers), ingame mentioning, and at best, discussion of it on the forums. I think someone here acutally got banned for discussing the numbers and is pretty much left to posting his findings on a blog.

The most we can really go about doing is saying "I'm not getting any reported misses with X accuracy" or "I need X amount of skill speed to reduce my GCD by .01 seconds", which then does not account for it's affect on DoTs and summoner pet damage.

Maybe "data" sharing wasn't the correct wording; I meant more like what you said, people noticing things and then adding them up on their own. The FFXI devs were/are strictly against modding, to the point they would actively change code to sabotage known mods and parsers.

The point being, FFXIV's pretty transparent about its numbers in comparison, so I don't think we're going to get any clearer numbers from SE.