Quote Originally Posted by Physic View Post
in all honesty the whm who dumped all his stats into str just for funsies, probably wont play the way you want with or without stats. At the end of the day you need to ask someone if they can handle a certain role, and if they can handle that role, who cares how they stat?

If they actually do let people set their role in search i think it will save a lot of people time. If you see a Con in search with a role set as attacker, and you dont believe in that you can just not invite him. Or at least you can ask them, we need a healer can you handle this role?
I agree. But they do, stats matter. If you're playing in a party (and they make lvling harder and roles more defined) then stats will matter more. I can say I'll be a nuke Con but if I happened to dumped a lot in MND then that will potentially affect 7 other people. Is it a big deal? no. It does make things muddier and more a hassle though.

I agree that the whole role options you can put up in 2.0 will be great, but some base auto-allotment still at least allows some level playing field and know what to expect when a job is seeking a party. It'll be great for things such as if they ever introduce something like summoner, then they could define themselves as being DD rather than support. Or a mrd being a DD rather than a tank.