Quote Originally Posted by Renkei View Post
It isn't factual Incorrect and everybody and their mother knows that the stats do in fact shift in tiers at break points, This is just for calculating First hand what stats to Prioritize and by no means is used for calculating final output or breakpoints, that is done by a stat by stat basis and based on the nearest break-point.

While i Agree stat weights aren't accurate because of the nature of tiered breakpoints for stats, using this calculation for prioritizing Gear / Materia is Viable, at it's core that's what this calculation is for as it's just an estimate.

It is just a calculation used for gearing.

The Reason why i tell people not to join The Balance Discord is the official forums isn't really the place to be advertising external communities.
Not everyone knows that stats are tiered. In fact, you probably wouldn't know either if it weren't for the hard work of this game's theorycrafting community in deducing the damage formula and stat formulae. Before we had good knowledge on this, someone calculated spurious stat weights that were treated as gospel but were in fact inaccurate and led to many people making sub-optimal gearing choices in Heavensward, because the actual reality hadn't been properly deduced.

If you agree, then why do you use them? Why would you quote numbers when a priority is sufficient enough and probably more correct than the gearing decisions that would be made using what are effectively numbers pulled out of thin air? Are these weights calculated for your current gear, for his current gear, or what? And what about when he changes gear, when these numbers you've quoted become completely wrong? The issue isn't so much that they "aren't accurate" but that they are intellectually dishonest with respect to how gearing calculations are done and how statting actually works in this game.

If you have the methodology for calculating these stat weights, by all means please share it, because I would like to know how you did it.

Finally, nobody here is advertising the discord but is suggesting that OP joins it because it is the place where most guides and theorycrafting information is hosted. If the information is best gained from outside the OF, why not redirect a poster to where they can get the best information for the game possible?