Serious Point Allocation Discussion

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

Kaeko and crew have been doing some testing on physical damage reduction.

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...entry?e=317908

[Geesus]

Kaeko and crew have been doing some testing on physical damage reduction.

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...entry?e=317908

This^ Kaeko is ALWAYS forever running tests. Btw, ty Kaeko and team! (^.^)b

[Arcell]

Kaeko and crew have been doing some testing on physical damage reduction.

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...entry?e=317908

That's some great info, if not terribly disconcerting. All the defense currently possible would only put us between 0 and 0.1% damage reduction on something like Ifrit. That's pretty awful. And that would essentially mean that HP is king and Warrior will remain in its place until defense calculations are revamped, if they ever are.

[SionDurant]

I agree, Arcell. The data speaks for itself, there's no way a Paladin can build that much VIT and remain comparable to our colleagues. In that, it seems like PLD is a useless thing for me, despite this I think for the moment I will go STR > MND and pray for rain. If only VIT calculated into damage for us.

What I think is VIT should somehow collude with ACC, ATK and it's usual mods for both the Warrior and PLD, offering more ATK to the warrior and more acc for the Paladin.

Or, we should be given a true utility role, in that we can regen MP effectively through access to the Blessed Mind WHM ability, and boast higher healing magic potency. But that's for another discussion.