Quote Originally Posted by Danman87 View Post
So just focus on gear stats then?

I'm obviously clueless as don't even know what you mean by skill speed points.

How I've gotten this far is beyond me.
Yes, based on what we are told the changes are you mainly just need to worry about obtaining gear, the materia system is a distant second. If you are interested in learning more about job optimization, there are a few online tools and communities focused on making guides and rotations and even best in slot gear. Best of all they are all free.

Skill speed points are values of the GCD that allow you to safely hit, for example, 5 moves in a 10 second buff. This is more important on jobs like dark knight and warrior, and less important on paladin. On paladin it is possible to get 11 GCD's into fight or flight. As someone else mentions this is mostly for people who raid, this game is about accessibility so no one assumes you are melding unless you are doing savage or ultimate content. Though the gains are more than .03%.