Why so much Determination and no Crit?

[Kaurie]

Conversely, it's been pretty good stat wise for SMN Finally not a ridiculous amount of spell speed and ramped up the crit!

I do wish this game had better itemization though, where everyone could just farm for the stats they want - rather than being subject to these random decisions.

[SessionZero]

Conversely, it's been pretty good stat wise for SMN Finally not a ridiculous amount of spell speed and ramped up the crit!

I do wish this game had better itemization though, where everyone could just farm for the stats they want - rather than being subject to these random decisions.

A stat swap system would not go awry in this game, I agree. It was one of my favorite things from Diablo 3.

[Khubla_Kha]

Conversely, it's been pretty good stat wise for SMN Finally not a ridiculous amount of spell speed and ramped up the crit!

I do wish this game had better itemization though, where everyone could just farm for the stats they want - rather than being subject to these random decisions.

GOGO Horizontal progression content!!!

Seriously, FF is always about farming to maximize your particular character regardless of online or console/offline versions.

This system of nothing but vertical progression treadmill where everyone's character is the exact same couldn't feel more wrong being shoe horned into a FF title. I wish the team would acknowledge and correct this.

[Welsper59]

GOGO Horizontal progression content!!!

Seriously, FF is always about farming to maximize your particular character regardless of online or console/offline versions.

This system of nothing but vertical progression treadmill where everyone's character is the exact same couldn't feel more wrong being shoe horned into a FF title. I wish the team would acknowledge and correct this.

Was it? I mean, I get that you could alter how you played based on other means, like materia or junction, but most FF titles didn't actually make stats matter that much. It was practically always down to highest damage weapon and highest def armor with a varying accessory. Even with things like materia in VII, it honestly just came down to relying heavily on physical damage materia or survival boost (HP%+). You could always choose to boost your magic, but it didn't mean much to the overall game when the clear winning stats were apparent, just like here. Games like FFT were very basic/vertical and down to wearing the best gear available for the job. XI was one of the few to branch out from that and actually affect your character to the core of gameplay.

Were there a significant majority of FF games that had meaningful customization to stat choice? From my own memory, I don't know of much besides XI. Even grid systems were only temporary choices since you could always elect to max them out.

[Maero]

Much jobs are messed up these last patches. I find it really hard on blm for instance to get a proper set that you do not loose way too much spell speed, crit or if you do you end up with not enough acc
Parry on tank gear is just .....

[Orbiaus]

I don't get it either. The mch gear stats and weapon seem poor. For some reason mch needs lots of skill speed?!

[Ametrine]

Scholars got screwed over with the most of the healer gear. It heavily favors White Mage and Astro, with the Det and Piety splattered about over Crit.

I'm guessing the new Mhachi raid will alleviate much of our woes.

[Remus]

Raid and you wouldn't have a problem with stats.

[HyoMinPark]

Raid and you wouldn't have a problem with stats.

Not entirely true. Some of the 270 pieces have terrible stats too. And don't even get me started on the stats of some of the 275 Alexandrian weapons. >.> I don't even raid but some of those were disappointing, stat-wise.

[zonderbunny]

don't raid and you don't have to worry about secondary stats . I just put the highest ilvl whatsit in the proper slot and call it a day.