Intelligence?

[Wevlum]

Just wondering if anyone else is curious why our intelligence stat is roughly the same as our strength stat? This is making me really interested in seeing what the class skill adjustments are going to be in 1.20

[KRose]

Go go Fire?

Maybe our MP skills like Seismic Shock II and Aura Pulse are affected by INT rather than STR? I haven't really used either since the patch to notice a difference. Or maybe like you suggested, it's something related for 1.20.

[Synfrag]

Good question... This clears nothing up though.

From the mouth of SE

Strength (STR)
Increases damage dealt by physical attacks
Increases damage prevented when blocking attacks with a shield

Vitality (VIT)
Reduces damage taken from physical attacks
Increases maximum HP

Dexterity (DEX)
Increases accuracy of physical attacks
Increases chances of evading physical attacks
Increases critical hit rate of physical attacks and resulting damage
Increases parry rate for certain weapons

Intelligence (INT)
Increases damage dealt by magic attacks

Mind (MND)
Reduces damage taken from magic attacks
Increases maximum MP

Piety (PIE)
Reduces chances of your magic attacks being resisted
Increases your chance of resisting magic attacks of others

Elements
Increases damage dealt by attacks of that element
Reduces damage taken from attacks of the opposing element

[Reinheart]

Also got to wonder for Puglist why they have materia for elemental damage +
Maybe related to INT

[Nayt]

Good question... This clears nothing up though.

From the mouth of SE [...]

just out of curiosity, when did they post this info? Thinking along the lines of whether it's an old abandoned route or something which might still be held valid, since some changes like PIE and MIND have occured.

Anyway, I think it's fairly safe to say that the battle system is starting to get stable enough to start experimenting about effects of stats and such. I was wondering about the weapon materia as well, since there are no other apparent connections to elemental damage