STR/DEX/PIE/ATK Testing

[Coglin]

1) You don't know that BRD is even going to get debuffs. They aren't getting any in the most current ability lists.
Umm, yes they are. I dunno what list your using, but the official one says we will get at the very least:

BRD WS 1-Target AoE-Deals damage to all enemies within range of the target. Combo: ARC WS 4, Bonus: Chance to inflict Stun.

2) Why are you presuming that BRD and ARC must share modifiers? There's no reason why BRD and ARC can't have different modifiers. The game already has a robust infrastructure for changing the various formulas for an ability depending on which class/job you are currently on.
With this, I can agree. For now though, we have no reason to assume they will have different modifiers.

Reguardless, I find an AoE stun as a pretty darn good good reason to desire to beef up stats that will assist in raising the chances to make it stick.

[Spider-Dan]

Umm, yes they are. I dunno what list your using, but the official one says we will get at the very least:

BRD WS 1-Target AoE-Deals damage to all enemies within range of the target. Combo: ARC WS 4, Bonus: Chance to inflict Stun.

That's true, but that totally destroys the idea of BRD being PIE-based for "debuffs." If you're going to count WS additional effects, every DoW has multiple added-effect WSes, so that's no argument for specifically making ARC or BRD reliant on PIE.

In other words, since ARC (and/or BRD) gains no more from PIE than any other DoW, and they would gain just as much as the others if STR replaced PIE in their damage calculation, PIE-based damage is still to their detriment.