The way I look at it, you can't go wrong putting points in the primary stat for your class. It's also easy to figure out which is the primary stat for your class. When you open up your powers, you can go to traits. Every class gets multiple passive boosts to the same stat as they level. For marauder and gladiator it's vitality. For pugilist and lancer it's strength. For archer it's dexterity. For arcanist and thaumaturge, it's intellect. For conjurer, it's mind. I don't see any reason for anyone to put their extra points in piety, as I never had any problem with mana pool as a thaumaturge or conjurer. The very rare time I ran out of mana it was because my group was playing terribly, and a few points in piety won't fix that.
As a level 25 thaumaturge, I think I had around 10 stat points distributed. I could have easily gotten 10+ more through the materia sockets in my gear, and that's with materia rank 1 (it goes up to rank 4 at level 50). My guess is you'll have a lot more flexibility in how you socket your gear to help fill out stats where you may need some flexibility. I plan to spend my stat points on my primary stat and play around with materia if I need a little more mana or want to try to make an avoidance or aggro build for tanking. Materia is easy to swap around to play with, but stat point assignments are permanent, so they should probably go into your best stat.
As a level 25 thaumaturge, I think I had around 10 stat points distributed. I could have easily gotten 10+ more through the materia sockets in my gear, and that's with materia rank 1 (it goes up to rank 4 at level 50). My guess is you'll have a lot more flexibility in how you socket your gear to help fill out stats where you may need some flexibility. I plan to spend my stat points on my primary stat and play around with materia if I need a little more mana or want to try to make an avoidance or aggro build for tanking. Materia is easy to swap around to play with, but stat point assignments are permanent, so they should probably go into your best stat.
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