So right now, the ONLY control you have over the outcome of a fight with another player is your choice of items and your assignment of stat points. Regardless of this the majority of Avatars have very similair stat builds.

Assigning stat points as you level increases complexity without offering any real depth to the game. It confuses new players as they often make mistakes like assigning points to Speed or HP early on. The choices you make unless extreme generally have very little effect on what is a highly random fight system and as such this system will be removed. This may seem counter-intuitive to what I'm trying to achieve, however I think there are far better ways to add depth to player vs player fighting than assigning points to stats.

As such each stat will increase slowly as you level giving every Avatar the exact same set of base stats. Instead of the spending points in stats as you level you will instead be rewarded with the choice of abilities as the ability system will be highly re-worked these abilities even before reaching 80 will be able to be used to customize your character in ways that will have a dramatic impact on fights.