Critical hit! Direct hit!

[Barraind]

Who the hell changed gear around in Velious?

You used like, 5 resist pieces from kunark forward.

but I do understand that at best we'll see each job have their own two stats, and that it's highly unlikely we'll wind up with, say, several ways to build a BLM.

we never will because of how gearing works in this game. Theres very little actual horizontal itemization (each ilvl has between 1-3 pieces of gear per slot, and the ilvl with 3 is never the highest lvl in a tier), which keeps us from being able to have more than a small difference in secondary stats. Secondary stats are also dwarfed by primary stats, unless the secondary stats are required to hit breakpoints.

[Barraind]

Direct Hit IMO is worthless on Tanks/Healers because you're only getting around a 12% shot of doing it at most. That's too low to be reliable.

Thats not how math works.