i had a discussion with my friend in game about dueling builds in general.
"all those comparisons aim vs dodge deciding who hits, shooting vs reflex deciding the damage and others are still not known how they go. its obvious its not 1 on 1 ratio. it should be something like percent value.
example to this would be:
you go cycling with your bike. the more efforts you put, the more faster you go, but at some point this line gets tricky, despite the same efforts or even bigger are put, the result (speed) increases slower, and by that is not worth that effort. in my guess same is here. you have to increse your stats (thus increasing your dueling performance) to such lvl where it still gives adequate results for your eforts, if the results become too costy, you have to switch.
ex:
in my guess there is something like that. your aim is 30 my dodge is 10. you hit me (hypothetically) 5 times. to hit me 6 times, you need aim at 40. but to hit me 7 times you need aim at 90. so this one more hit is not worth 50SP, so you would have to choose different statistics to level in order to increase your performance.
thats why pure builds at some point looses their power, because they tend to sleep on their prizes and still increase stats which suddenly becomes not worth increasing.
contrary, early spreading of skills will be a suicidal attempt, because you will not have much jobs and still every purer build will beat you, untill you feel the result of balance in mid 70 lvl.
tho balance is very important. after lvl 70 im going to go on appearance or even more dodge and after that appearance in order to become more and more balanced..."
adding to this i can state, that dodge in early stages is death to character since as someone noted it doesnt contribute to jobs. i say lets leave upgrading dodge when you have some acces to high luck/xp/$ jobs. because aim also doesnt contribute, and having boths stats at begining wouldnt make you very balanced now, would it ?
i think bill is wrong stating shooting/vigour should be higher than aim, cus on my observations it happens as i theoreticaly imply