Why so much Determination and no Crit?

[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.

[NolLacnala]

As a blm sub... this disappoints me. *cough ss missing from various gear cough*

The only real complaint we BLM can leverage is that our BiS is timegated

[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.

[Ghastly]

Isn't the new machi raid going to be i260 while at the same time we'll be able to get scripture gear to i270?
So why don't people just mix alexandrian (not savage) i250 gear with scripture gear?

Adding parry to scripture gear gives alexander (normal) gear purpose.

So it's not a random decision, it's intended