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啦體恩的雨水主要下降在其原野中
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Well, no one needs Max stats for anything. It's not really a constructive statement to say that. Although, the rest of what you said is informative and insightful for sure.
You don't need max gear for anything in the game, with enough of other things such as coordination, amount of people attending, player skill, merits, etc, but better gear, including INT and passive race stats definitely help. Otherwise, for example, how comfortable are you with a Taru PLD compared to an Elvaan PLD?

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I guess I should be more clear, max = max dint(also mnd) on spells where potency matters, I forget most people don't have a solid background.

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啦體恩的雨水主要下降在其原野中
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Nasomi troubleshooting!

Base stats can't really be compensated for with gear and merits because the other races get equal access to those outside of RSE. And when you're using RSE2 on Galka you're missing out on some better gear that can be had in those same slots until you've used up the extra MP and can swap them out. As a galka myself and one that's leveling BLM at that I understand I will never be as good as a Taru BLM that has the same mentality as me (Have the best gear possible) but that's not the point. Sure I can tell you about stories about managing my MP slightly better than a Taru where I did more damage overall than they did or when I was nuking for more damage than the Taru BLM next to me but that wasn't because of my RSE it was because I had better gear than they did however they have access to all the same gear as I do so if they were trying as hard as I was there would be nothing I can to do compete.

The point is play what you can stand to look at for the rest of your existence on this server because the only one that has to be happy with your character is you as you're stuck with it. You can think those are the 2 jobs that interest you but surely you will level others eventually and then what if you're not what you think is the optimal race for the job? You'll let that stop you?