Quote Originally Posted by Puremallace View Post
In WoW it was the opposite as versatility stacking was the thing so people became almost unkillable because tanks said their main stat sucked. No MMO dev has really figured it out except with diminishing returns to the point it gives nothing.
The only real way to figure it out IMO would require them changing the materia melds to be purely utility based in nature. At which point all that would matter is the gear...and then forcing certain "useless" stats on all gear. Meaning for DPS, you'd be seeing skill/spell speed on everything, and would have to choose between Det, DH, and Crit for the other stat. Tanks would have Tenacity on everything and you'd have to choose between Skill speed, det, and crit. Healers already have Piety on everything practically so they're pretty much already there. Of course doing it for tanks and dps would require some serious guts at this point.