The Crit, Direct Hit and Det system needs an overhaul.

[Jeeqbit]

What is the alternative to how it is now though?

• Accuracy (which DH replaced) just meant that everyone felt pressured to reach 100% accuracy in order to raid. It behaved as just a way to make it harder to get into raiding, when raiding isn't something the majority of people do in an MMO already.
• Parry (RNG mitigation that only works against physical attacks).
• Evasion (a stat that exists but not on our gear) is like RNG immunity against an attack.
• Elements (stats which increase damage against a specific element), obviously going to be annoying changing gear for every fight.
• Element defense (same thing)
• Determination (flat damage increase), already got it.
• Tenacity (flat damage reduction/increase), already got it.
• Skill/Spell Speed, already got it.

All those candidates would either be avoided, used to exist and were avoided, already exist or would make it more annoying and more of a chore to raid.

The stats are as good as they could be for a casual game. To do the examples I provided would start to create the chores we have from old mmos.

[Deceptus]

What is the alternative to how it is now though?

Simple really. The FFXIV devs have already established they're fine with "role based stats" via Tenacity and Piety. Do the same with Direct Hit for DPS.

The reason Tanks Hate Tenacity and Healers Hate Piety is because they're objectively worthless. They need to be buffed.

Give every job 3 sub stats with tweaks for a "main substat" with 2 other minors

Tanks:

• Tenacity (Lowers Damage taken, increased healing received)
• Skill Speed
• Crit

Healers:

• Piety (Healing done / MP regen)
• Spell Speed
• Crit

DPS

• Direct Hit - becomes a DPS only stat. Let DPS be DPS and have the big numbers.
• Spell Speed / Skill Speed determine by caster or melee
• Crit

Yes this simplifies sub stats but it makes designing gear a hell of a lot easier when there's no "garbage" stat and no "garbage" gear pieces (tenacity/piety heavy gear currently. The above also reinforces role identity.

[Ransu]

Simple really. The FFXIV devs have already established they're fine with "role based stats" via Tenacity and Piety. Do the same with Direct Hit for DPS.

The reason Tanks Hate Tenacity and Healers Hate Piety is because they're objectively worthless. They need to be buffed.

Give every job 3 sub stats with tweaks for a "main substat" with 2 other minors

Tanks:

• Tenacity (Lowers Damage taken, increased healing received)
• Skill Speed
• Crit

Healers:

• Piety (Healing done / MP regen)
• Spell Speed
• Crit

DPS

• Direct Hit - becomes a DPS only stat. Let DPS be DPS and have the big numbers.
• Spell Speed / Skill Speed determine by caster or melee
• Crit

Yes this simplifies sub stats but it makes designing gear a hell of a lot easier when there's no "garbage" stat and no "garbage" gear pieces (tenacity/piety heavy gear currently. The above also reinforces role identity.

I wouldn't mind this, but sadly every mmo has garbage stats on gear designed intentionally. Its to push players to keep farming for the BiS stats.

[dspguy]

• Accuracy (which DH replaced) just meant that everyone felt pressured to reach 100% accuracy in order to raid. It behaved as just a way to make it harder to get into raiding, when raiding isn't something the majority of people do in an MMO already.
• Parry (RNG mitigation that only works against physical attacks).
  

Getting to the accuracy requirement for raiding was not really hard. Getting to the accuracy requirement while still maximizing crit was the problem. Only certain pieces had accuracy and melding accuracy to gear wasn't really ideal unless you happened to need just a little more accuracy.

And parry was just garbage. Removing parry was good.

Back to accuracy though - I think it makes gear choices easier. Whether that is a good thing or bad thing is up to the players' interpretation.