Make Each Class Use Each Stat

[Reynhart]

If you're looking for this kind of system I'd recommend trying ffxi, it is fun but it's not what they're going for in this game.

It's a good thing that this game is not like FFXI, but if they don't expand the effect of stats, why bother having them ?
And also, how will they make more jobs relevant if they all focus on the exact same thing ?

[LineageRazor]

It's a good thing that this game is not like FFXI, but if they don't expand the effect of stats, why bother having them ?

This. With the direction FFXIV is going there's really no reason to have stats at all. Every job has every so-called "main" stat, but only two or three affect that job at all, and generally only one does the player bother boosting. You could pretty much straight up remove STR VIT INT MND DEX PIE from the game and replace them all with "Damage", "HP", and "MP", and the game would be otherwise largely unchanged.

Really the only reason we have them at all is that it's expected for those stats (or similar ones) to exist in an RPG.

It'd be nice if players were expected to balance their stats. For example, you want to max out your damage, but if you negelct your defensive stats too much you're a glass cannon and no use to anyone, so sacrifice some of that damage to build up your defenseive stats. In FFXIV, though, players have one option and one option only: pump up your main stat as high as it will go.

[Reynhart]

In FFXIV, though, players have one option and one option only: pump up your main stat as high as it will go.

Let me take something from a game almost as despised as FFXI (in the official forum )...FFXIV 1.0. /thunder

Back when class ranks and physical level were separated, every point of stat you had was a result of bonus points. It meant that you really could go the glass cannon way by putting nothing into Vitality. You had to find the good balance between those stats.
Even more, you kept the same stats for any class you level, so if you wanted to be good, you had to make choices...but it was poorly implemented, sadly

Now that gear provides more than 90% of our stats, while still only being chosen on ilvl only (Most of the time), stats don't do anything.