Why does this game hide essential character info?

[Dzian]

however, if people expected that from HW to ShB we would be reaching ridiculously low GCD and super high crit rates, thats unfortunate. I cant see SE balancing it that way and we'll never be able to know how they change the potencies of stats from expansion to expansion, sadly.

I don't think its anyhting extreme like that.
I just think its easy to see why people think stats are boring and meaningless when you never actually gain anything from them because they're always adjusting potencies.

I also think its down to design. FFXI worked around a hidden stat many referred to as DLVL which scaled your stats according to a basic level difference between you and whatever you were fighting. and that always meant that you felt stat differences.

I sometimes think XIV would be better with something similar.. At least then if a level 80 player went and did Ifrit Ex unsynced he might actually see a difference in his crit rates by seeing them skyrocket, but when you unsync to 80 and your crit rates against a level 50 mob are the exact same they are against a level 80 then what does that stat actually do for you???

Or even just have some variance in monster stats. Mobs that are super slow but super heavy armored, mobs that are soft and squishy but evasive as hell... there's a lot they could do to cater for ever increasing stats without constantly changing the potencies and removing any gains..

Where as now I can step out of Ul'dah throw a shield at a level 1 bug and hit it for almost the exact same damage as I would throwing that shield at a level 80 boss.. It's kinda weird to think that boss has the the exact same defense as a level 80 bug... the only difference between them is the boss has way more hp..