[DEV Question] Why is this allowed?

[Callinon]

Why is it totally absurd?

Right now, weapon damage sets the scale of increases SE wants for the game.

If you lower that value of weapon damage, making it matter less, it would mean they just give weapons themselves higher weapon damage numbers.

IE:
1 WD on PLD equalling to 25 VIT
1 WD on PLD equalling to 5 VIT, then give that weapon 5 WD.

The stat itself 'compared' to the rest of the stats matters little because they purposely want weapon damage to be that important in the end.

Yes that's what I'm suggesting be changed. The difference in damage between 1 WD and 1 STR is nuts. No stat should be 25x more important than another stat unless that other stat is totally useless for your job (Piety on a DRG). I don't mean you change the numbers so that the math works out the same way just with different numbers plugged in, that's pointless. I'm saying change the formula so that primary and secondary stats contribute more than they do now and tone down the impact of WD on performance.

It's a weapon. The weapon is where most of our damage comes from. Not our armour (though it does add to it). Just make it so that players cannot enter duties if their weapon doesn't match the level of the content.

It can still be the most important piece of gear but right now it's practically the only piece that matters and that's a problem.

Add to that it's always the most difficult piece of gear to obtain (for obvious reasons with the way the math works) and a rule like you're proposing here brickwalls people who are trying to catch up.

Imposing punitive measures because someone screwed up in an instance (which was cleared anyway) is stupid. It's not a solution to the problem, just a roadblock.

People are carrying on about wanting their party members to show up properly geared.. ok.. but when you're talking about excluding people from expert roulette because their necklace isn't 230? That's stupid. And make no mistake, that's exactly what about half these proposals would do.