What do you think of the point allotment system?

[Jinko]

a DD glad a tank glad and a pld glad need very different stats, i imagine that the same can be said of many playstyles/disciplines.

Yea they do, but then its for you to augment them with gear and materia in that case to make them the best they can be for that specific purpose.

Ok so we added materia to the mix, lets now add the up comming job system, say for example if a GLA can choose a job as a PLD his stats will change to suit that class, he chooses Swordmaster (i duno I'm making these names up) and his stats are now more suitable for DDing.

It seems pretty obvious to me the additions of both these systems are in an effort to remove the physical level and stat allocation system.

Balancing also becomes a lot easier if they have a base number to work with, if a GLA has base stats then the maximum he can have is with X gear, so you then tune an NM/monster to fall within the median of the min and max values.