The other stats

[DiabloMuerto]

So are there any classes or viable builds that actually use the "other" stats? Haven't seen anyone giving two craps about Domination, Expertise and to some extent Endurance but definitely the first two. I don't really understand why they're a thing, you can't really sell any items with those on them, none of the top end builds seem to use them.

The only thought I had is maybe one of the classes not in our version yet uses those to good effect? Just right now they seem like stats they added just to make the rng have more to work with.1

[Medicles]

I dont think they will matter unless a class specialises on them. Bonus damage against impaired enemies is too inconsistent, better defense is worthless since tanks dont really exist and increasing the effect of debuffs and dots on enemies is not on par with attack/movement speed + skill reduction, crit or bonus on class special. Though i can see expertise becoming relevant when a class specialises its attacks on debuffs.

[Ginnza]

Every arpg has useless stats. Why? To make it harder to get good gear.. If every piece was good, people wouldnt play for as long.

[Medicles]

Originally posted by chemicals:

Every arpg has useless stats. Why? To make it harder to get good gear.. If every piece was good, people wouldnt play for as long.

Not really though. Most ARPGs have stats that can be overall used to make different builds. Endurance would easily be useful for a Thorn build, Expertise for a Posion Build and Domination for nothing because its worthless.

[Azerate]

Just because a stat isn't the best for most classes doesn't mean it's useless. All the statistics contribute something to your character, some of them just contribute less.

[DiabloMuerto]

Originally posted by Azerate:

Just because a stat isn't the best for most classes doesn't mean it's useless. All the statistics contribute something to your character, some of them just contribute less.

If no one uses it, it's useless, that's kind of how it works.

[Mravenrocks]

Endurance is completely useless but domination and expertise are used in world PvP, mostly in guild vs guild content (which isn't out in your version of the game).

But no class, even in the current Korean version of the game use those stats for PvE content.

[G4M5T3R]

Originally posted by chemicals:

Every arpg has useless stats. Why? To make it harder to get good gear.. If every piece was good, people wouldnt play for as long.

Its relative in those other games. The useless stats change depending on your class, that is not the case in LA.

[Double Quarter Pounder w/ cheese]

The reason: min/maxing purposes. I did run endurance briefly on my bluelancer, because it gives extra shields, and a small bit into expertise for the extra stagger during guardian raids, but eventually I just went all in for specialization. People generally go all in on crit or specialization because it's the min/max thing to do. Maximum output of dmg with minimum survivability because in theory you COULD be an absolute god at this game and take 0 dmg in pretty much every encounter if you're good enough to dodge everything. As for domination, that's used in pvp, so there's that.