DRK balance

[Nalien]

If this is under the current Stat weights, then PLDs and DRKs would lose something like 40% of their attack power, further cementing WAR/WAR compositions. PLD? I doubt they would give up half their attack power to sometimes use Cure more effectively. Nor would DRKs choose to lose 40% across the board to use Dark Arts a couple more times.

No way am I suggesting this under the current stat weights... You'd swap STR for MND or PIE, Paladin would get half its attack power from MND instead of STR, Dark Knight from PIE instead of STR. They've essentially gotten around Paladin using MND with Clemency, though.

Only real issue is gear bloat and gear set space. With Esoterics we already had separate sets for each Job, I'm essentially suggesting that just with the stats being different, rather than it being solely for glamour. With the way gear is locked out though, that certainly wouldn't be a popular change. Still, I'd rather see Jobs gear for different stats, rather than the current sorry state of everyone gearing essentially the same thing... I actually find myself preferring sets like Esoterics just because the glamour system is so flawed for tanks/healers...

Pretty much how 1.23 worked, come to think of it... Every Job used to have two main stats impacting their attack powers, things feel dumbed down these days...