Tenacity has been buffed

[Rithy255]

What would be interesting to me if we had damage melds and utility melds. I also think we should meld on our job stones instead of our gear, so different jobs can have different melds, even then have more then 1 sets of Materia would be nice to switch around from.

Damage melds would be
Crit - Same as it is
Skill/spell speed - (both should be merged lol) I think skill speed should scale so that crit isn't always the best meld, where skill would be a more "consistent pick" and crit can be ur highest peak pick.
Det - Filler stat

Utility melds on the other hand could either be baseline stat changes, such as HP, Defence values, or we could even have certain Materia that's more "in depth" melds that could effect defensive/raid wide utilities. Theirs a lot of room for creativity when it comes to utility.

This would be a lot of work so i doubt any of this but i would love to see more creativity with the melding and job system.

[niwaar]

I do think melding is just generally just a poorly designed so I wouldn't be opposed to it going or it having a massive update in 8.0

Skill/spell speed - (both should be merged lol) I think skill speed should scale so that crit isn't always the best meld, where skill would be a more "consistent pick" and crit can be ur highest peak pick.

Melding non crafted gear should just be removed at this point. We'd do better with a "relic state reforging" system than anything else. As for Tenacity, if they want us to want it then they need to force it down our throats. Its not like this is WoW and we have a wide breadth of gearing choice. We literally have 2 sets, tomes and savage. Just remove the dps stats off our gear and force tenacity on us. Just give us a higher base crit/dh rate. Its not like some jobs dont have auto C/DH cooldowns as it is. Real problem though lands on encounter design. By forcing the tank and healer to do "competitive" damage while doing our role we have lost our identity. Generally I believe they should lower base enmity, and make tenacity increase the multiplier on enmity. Bring us back to having to actually try and keep threat and not be face roll, just because dungeon only people complain. The paradigm needs a shift away from "do the most damage we can" back to "control the fight and keep our friends from dying.

As for your comment about skill/spell speed, I also agree that it should be a combined stat. I have no idea if skill speed speeds up Paladin's spell casting or not, but a general singular stat would help simplify things (if not just raise materia prices because more people want them). I will say that having speed be more important in some cases works, but i think generally it should be a playstyle choice, which is there for some jobs but not an option in others. Jobs with a lot of ogcds which are speed locked will never benefit from speed nearly as much.

[DRKoftheAzure]

Melding non crafted gear should just be removed at this point. We'd do better with a "relic state reforging" system than anything else. As for Tenacity, if they want us to want it then they need to force it down our throats. Its not like this is WoW and we have a wide breadth of gearing choice. We literally have 2 sets, tomes and savage. Just remove the dps stats off our gear and force tenacity on us. Just give us a higher base crit/dh rate. Its not like some jobs dont have auto C/DH cooldowns as it is. Real problem though lands on encounter design. By forcing the tank and healer to do "competitive" damage while doing our role we have lost our identity. Generally I believe they should lower base enmity, and make tenacity increase the multiplier on enmity. Bring us back to having to actually try and keep threat and not be face roll, just because dungeon only people complain. The paradigm needs a shift away from "do the most damage we can" back to "control the fight and keep our friends from dying.

As for your comment about skill/spell speed, I also agree that it should be a combined stat. I have no idea if skill speed speeds up Paladin's spell casting or not, but a general singular stat would help simplify things (if not just raise materia prices because more people want them). I will say that having speed be more important in some cases works, but i think generally it should be a playstyle choice, which is there for some jobs but not an option in others. Jobs with a lot of ogcds which are speed locked will never benefit from speed nearly as much.

Apparently someone on the dev team saw this one comment and took it VERY personally for gearing up tanks... and the worse part is that only Dark Knight benefits from tenacity and even they don't want that in if they can trade it in for either Critical Hit, Determination, Direct Hit Rate, OR Skill Speed...

[Carighan]

Generally I believe they should lower base enmity, and make tenacity increase the multiplier on enmity. Bring us back to having to actually try and keep threat and not be face roll, just because dungeon only people complain. The paradigm needs a shift away from "do the most damage we can" back to "control the fight and keep our friends from dying.

This wouldn't actually fix the problem, just make the symptoms look prettier in a picture. Like SpS and SkS "checkpoints", this would mean that for each tier you got a "target Tenacity" you meld for, and then the stat becomes useless.

This is no better (and arguably no worse) than just removing the melding system entirely.

[Commander_Justitia]

Increase mob/boss output tank damage, until tenacity matters.

[ThurinTurambar]

The problem is not tenacity nor the fact that you only meld crit/direct hit or whatever on other jobs. Its the unavoidable consequence of having static stats on items.
In this game gear is pretty much a 0-1 situation, aside from some hipster speed builds, you always have a clear BiS, you never have doubt if one piece of gear is better than the other.

It would be different if gear you obtained had a) more kind of stats, b) the stat values on the item would have rng involved.

But as you know, its not the situation, so complaining about this particular issue is redundant.

[Carighan]

Or if like in early DAoC, items had a finite lifetime (each time you repair them, some non-repairable stat drops slowly, once it needs to be repaired at 0%, that's it, item is now gone), and the entire item economy were refocused around that. If the "best" melds also cost a fortune by comparison, then since items don't live forever, using "good enough" melds (and items!) becomes a very real thing.

[Carighan]

Increase mob/boss output tank damage, until tenacity matters.

This would again just re-dress the issue, meaning you start a raid tier on 100% tenacity as you otherwise take too much damage, and as you get gear of that tier (with higher tenacity and base stats as the ilvl is higher) you remove tenacity melds and replace them with crit to do more damage. This is like Piety for healers, and see how well that works out for a comparison...

You cannot fix this via avenues such as these unless you first change things so that damage dealt by tanks is not an important metric at all, and hence optimizing for damage is not a "thing".

[Raikai]

What would be interesting to me if we had damage melds and utility melds. I also think we should meld on our job stones instead of our gear, so different jobs can have different melds, even then have more then 1 sets of Materia would be nice to switch around from.

Damage melds would be
Crit - Same as it is
Skill/spell speed - (both should be merged lol) I think skill speed should scale so that crit isn't always the best meld, where skill would be a more "consistent pick" and crit can be ur highest peak pick.
Det - Filler stat

Utility melds on the other hand could either be baseline stat changes, such as HP, Defence values, or we could even have certain Materia that's more "in depth" melds that could effect defensive/raid wide utilities. Theirs a lot of room for creativity when it comes to utility.

This would be a lot of work so i doubt any of this but i would love to see more creativity with the melding and job system.

I agree! Even if gear is still what is meldable, it should be - left side for damage melds/stats and right side for utility melds/stats.

This way you can literally customize your utility with no damage impact. The accessories have primary stats, but those utility ones are only obtainable via melding, and can be stuff like movement speed, mitigation, healing received, MP economy for healers, leech... or even new features like some kind of 'resilience' stat that reduces the impact or the duration of the Brink of Death/Vulnerability debuffs.

For the main stats, they should definitely merge the Speeds and ditch Direct Hit. I'd also love to see the Speeds actually useful for more jobs, but I feel it's very unlikely as long as we live under the leashes of the 2min meta.

It would be interesting if we had a new throughput stat that worked somehow like Mastery does in World of Warcraft, as in a stat that works differently based on the job you're at. For example, Dancers and Red Mages having higher proc chances, Astrologians could have increased card effects, Pictomancers with more damage on Motifs...

[Rongway]

Direct hit needs to be a DPS only stat

This. But also,

Direct Hit, Piety, and Tenacity should just all be the same stat with a single materia type, with it acting as dhit on DDS, piety on healers, and tenacity on tanks.