Please Fix Accuracy

[Zojha]

You talk as if there's a choice, but no, there isn't.

And making the system more complex won't change that fact, it simply makes the solution less obvious.

Every stat that changes power/performance suffers from that issue. What happened again in the strength meta for tanks? People took as much VIT as necessary and then stacked STR. And if we were to revamp the system to your proposed solution, the WAR you mentioned would take just enough DEX to get 100% accuracy, just enough MND to survive magic damage, just enough VIT to survive and then stack STR because it gives the highest damage output. What has changed? You have to look up more stat caps. Actual choice is still nil - you can't just stack more DEX because that's pointless and inferior to STR.
You can then go and alter the example - bonus dex now gives crit chance as well. Then the math wizards go and calculate how much worth that crit chance is in STR and if STR is more worthwhile, people still stack STR, whereas if it's better, you have to stack DEX. Difference to now? Math wizards have more to do and people who don't read the blogs of math wizards build bad builds.

In order to allow choices, the output (or more generally utility) needs to be roughly identical, because otherwise you just have the same situation as with MND or INT for healers - one has better results and you'd be a fool not to pick it. Balance is a prerequisite for choice. That's why you can choose to play as any job without people complaining, but playing as a class might even get you kicked - the jobs are roughly balanced against each other, but classes are not balanced against jobs. Just like with INT and MND, balance is not given and thus, the inferior choice becomes a non-choice. This very principle applies to each and every possible stat you can think of that changes performance to varying degrees and the current system primarily makes that fact and the correct solution painfully obvious.

And then the issue is: if choices are balanced, do they really matter? Philosophically, it's actually a very interesting thing. On the one hand, we want our choices to matter, but if they do, we don't really have a choice anymore (unless they only matter for something we are indifferent about). Typical dilemma even in morals - if both choices are wrong, does it really matter which one I pick? The difference being that morals are more subjective than math - functions and equations do not have much argumentative wiggle room.

Buuuut...that's leading off-topic.

[Frowny]

Anyone who doesn't dump all 35 points into Primary Stat is a fool.

In the grand scheme, where accessories give you DOUBLE that (think i270 is 78 of a main stat?), those points are about as meaningful as race bonuses right now. In 2.0 they were important, but now... it didn't scale that well. Will it hurt you? Yes... but not a whole lot.

[Rawrz]

Honestly healer accuracy sucks, but it's great at the same time. Never will I ever be unable to upgrade a piece because it would lower my accuracy below a working amount, since the new piece will receive the same melds. It's a blessing and a curse to have to work around predefined stats from sets.

[RyuSaarva]

nobody wants to die either so make enemies only heal you.

[Llynd]

I'd actually like them to give piety some accuracy ( like 0.25 accuracy for 1 Piety) so healers can get accuracy easier. That'd help them focusing on crit/det/ss so their dps numbers can get closer to tanks.

Remove accuracy for everyone wouldn't help us haha !

The thing is, we'll have no choice after removing accuracy. it will go crit/det or crit/sks and that's all. Having accuracy stuff was "forcing" us to choose our gear carefully. It will be brainless after that :x

[Frowny]

The thing is, we'll have no choice after removing accuracy. it will go crit/det or crit/sks and that's all. Having accuracy stuff was "forcing" us to choose our gear carefully. It will be brainless after that :x

Yes and no. Some classes are hurt by too much SkS so there is still a bit of a balancing act going on. Since raiders are the ones truly hit by accuracy, they'll still have a balancing act going on.

Heck, they may cook up a new stat to toss in (though unlikely, them even thinking of tossing out stats leaves the possibility on the table).

[Vaer]

I wouldn't be surprised if they just removed it, they didn't increase the ACC req for creator(s) from midas(s) and they already dropped ACC from weapons (other than anima) a while ago.

[AlphaFox]

I actually find it kinda funny in a way that starting out we are striking bugs and small creatures with no issue, yet we then come across giant beasts and suddenly we are not able to swing and connect? Just my thought on accuracy, but do hope they look into removing it.

[Dzian]

Accuracy would be fine if encounters were more diverse than endless trash pulls.

There no variety on mobs generally. All pretty much equal in evasion toughness etc etc. If your fire 4 hits 1 mob for 7k it'll hit virtually everything you cast it on for 7k.

If mobs were more diverse. Some that are really tough for example. Where a fire4 might only hit for 3k but those Mobs were slow as hell.

Or mobs that were evasive as anything but weak. So if the fire 4 hit it'd Hut for 10k..

You create a point where you'd want to balance accuracy vs attack power in relation to mob defence and evasion.
Would go a long way to making stats more interesting.

A similar thing could be achieved with parry if they gave bosses and stuff multi hit attacks.

[Cleftobismal]

I never understood int on a healer. The magic attack potency you gain from int gets switched with the healing potency. (it doesn't add up) Meaning you are just boosting the terrible healing power you will do in CS stance. . . . . .

The stat system did have its use in 2.0. As maxing piety or vit was a good option. But you're right. @LineageRazor It's just a restrictive system for mmorpg vanity.