Primary Stats

Primary Stats

Strength (STR) – Melee Physical Damage.
Dexterity (DEX) – Ranged Physical damage. (Only seems to affect archer)
Vitality (VIT) – HP Pool. (THIS DOES NOT INCREASE MARAUDER DAMAGE IN ARR!)
Intelligence (INT) – Attack Magic Potency.
Mind (MND) - Healing Magic Potency.
Piety (PIE) – MP Pool

Attribute Points

From level 10 onwards as you level up you will gain attribute points which you can assign to the six main stats of STR, DEX, VIT, INT, MND and PIE. It is important to understand where to put these attribute points as they will significantly affect your performance in battle.

As a general guide the primary stat for each class should be as follows:

Class	Primary Stat
Archer	Dexterity (DEX)
Gladiator	Vitality (VIT)
Lancer	Strength (STR)
Marauder	Vitality (VIT)
Pugilist	Strength (STR)
Arcanist	Intelligence (INT)
Conjurer	Mind (MND)
Thaumaturge	Intelligence (INT)

In FFXIV ARR, stat points are granted at level 10 (3 points) and every even level after that. (12,14,16,18). If we get 3 points every tenth level, up to 50 that’s a total of 31 stats points that you can put in.

• NOTE: That since we have not personally leveled a non-legacy character to 50 in beta phase 3, these numbers could possibly be HIGHER or LOWER.
  

You also seem to gain 1 point in all stats every level.

Still, the main source of stat points will be gear. Most of the fine-tuning and customization will come from materia (and of course stat points you gain for allocation getting to 50)

Secondary Stats

Your primary stats have a direct effect on many of your secondary stats. I can see that some of these secondary stats can only be modified by gear or skills. For example, the Marauder skill Storms Eye reduces the targets resistance to slashing damage.

Offensive Properties

• Accuracy – Your chance to successfully land attacks.
  
• Critical Hit Rate - Your chance to critically hit.
  
• Determination - Affects damage dealt by all attacks and HP recovered by spells.
  

Defensive Properties

• Defense – Overall physical damage reduction. (Mainly gained through equipment)
  
• Parry – Your chance to parry. Parrying reduces incoming damage by a certain percentage.
  
• Magic Defense - Overall Magical damage reduction. (Mainly gained through equipment)
  

Physical Properties

• Attack Power – Your overall physical damage capability.
  
• Skill Speed – Reduces recast time of weapon skills.
  

Physical Resistances

• Slashing  - Resistance to slashing type damage. (Axes, swords?)
  
• Piercing – Resistance to piercing damage. (Spears, arrows?)
  
• Blunt – Resistance to blunt type damage. (Fists, Staves?)
  

Mental Properties

• Attack Magic Potency - Your overall magic damage capability.
  
• Healing Magic Potency – Your overall healing capability.
  
• Spell Speed – Reduces cast time of  magical skills.
  

PvP Properties

• Morale – ?
  
• Crafting & Gathering Stats
  

Gathering Stats

• GP – Increases GP, which allows you to cast gathering skills.
  
• Gathering – Increases chance to successfully gather an Item
  
• Perception – Increases chance to gather high quality items.
  

Crafting Stats

• CP - Increases CP, which allows you to cast crafting skills.
  
• Craftsmanship – Increases the amount gained to reach a successful synthesis.
  
• Control – Increases the amount of quality gained when using “Basic Touch”.
  

Elemental Resists

• Fire - Reduce amount of Fire elemental damage taken.
  
• Ice - Reduce amount of Ice elemental damage taken.
  
• Wind - Reduce amount of Wind elemental damage taken.
  
• Earth - Reduce amount of Earth elemental damage taken.
  
• Lightning - Reduce amount of Lightning elemental damage taken.
  
• Water - Reduce amount of Water elemental damage taken.
  

Upon character creation, these stats are represented by “elemental attributes”. This was kind of misleading because people assumed you could increase elemental damage if you chose the right god. However, across all characters created the God stats only seem to affect resists.

 

In FFXIV: A Realm Reborn, the stats that each class uses were simplified, this means that your classes have less which they need to focus on. But it also removes concepts such as Archer requiring Piety. The following is a full list of stats and what they do in FFXIV: ARR.

Stat	Description
Strength (STR)	Increases melee attack power and the percentage of damage mitigated by block and parry.
Dexterity (DEX)	Increases ranged attack power and the chance of blocking or parrying an attack.
Vitality (VIT)	Increases maximum HP.
Intelligence (INT)	Increases attack magic potency.
Mind (MND)	Increases healing magic potency.
Piety (PIE)	Increases maximum MP.
Fire	Reduces the amount of damage received from fire-aspected attacks.
Ice	Reduces the amount of damage received from ice-aspected attacks.n
Wind	Reduces the amount of damage received from wind-aspected attacks.
Earth	Reduces the amount of damage received from earth-aspected attacks.
Lightning	Reduces the amount of damage received from lightning-aspected attacks.
Water	Reduces the amount of damage received from water-aspected attacks.
Accuracy	Increases the accuracy of physical and magical attacks.
Critical Hit Rate	Increases the probability that an attack will deal critical damage.
Determination	Increases the amount of damage dealt by all attacks and the amount of HP recovered by spells.
Attack Power	Increases the amount of damage dealt by physical attacks.
Skill Speed	Reduces the recast time of weaponskills.
Attack Magic Potency	Increases the amount of damage dealt by spells.
Healing Magic Potency	Increases the amount of HP recovered by spells.
Spell Speed	Reduces the cast and recast times of spells.
Defense	Reduces the amount of damage received from physical attacks.
Parry	Increases the probability that an attack will be blocked or parried.
Magic Defense	Reduces the amount of damage received from magical attacks.
Slashing	Reduces the amount of damage received from slashing attacks.
Piercing	Reduces the amount of damage received from piercing attacks.
Blunt	Reduces the amount of damage received from blunt attacks.
Morale	Reduces the amount of damage received from other players' attacks. (PvP stat)