Removal of Parry and Accuracy with the new stat "Tenacity"

[Muchmidget]

Except for the rules on advanced melding, you can meld anything to anything. I don't see tenacity and direct hit materia changing that.

I wouldn't be surprised if they allowed you to meld it, but the materia provides no benefit unless it's being applied to DPS gear (similar to melding materia for a capped-out stat).

[Shurrikhan]

So we get 3 offensive stats and one hybrid stat.

Did SE assume that any pure defensive stat would just be too out of meta for us? Otherwise a mere combined Defense/MagicDefense stat would have been enough to simply make Parry reliable, I would think?

I can quite see where SE's drawing the line or why. It seems like you'd either want 3 hybrid stats, each with different offensive/defensive advantages, or none...