Quote Originally Posted by Robban View Post
While I agree that limited storage options can be a nuisance, this isn't a way to solve this problem. Combining stats from different pieces of gear would just create more problems than it solves, while combining the elemental obis and gorgets would be mostly harmless, elemental staves are a whole different scenario. Taking the combined stats of the HQ staves would give us this:

Rainbow Staff: DMG:35 Delay:356 STR+9 DEX+9 VIT+9 AGI+9 INT+9 MND+9 CHR+4 All elemental resistance+20 Attack+10 Ranged Attack+10 Critical hit rate +15% Physical damage taken -20% Evasion+10 Elemental magic skill+10 Divine Magic Skill+10 Cure Potency+10% MP recovered while healing +10 All elemental affinity+2

This does in fact look like a highly desirable item, it even eliminates the tp loss from having to swap around weapons, but if you think it would seriously throw off the game balance (I know, I know, this word is being thrown around far too much these days, but it's not always without reason). The suggested combination of stats from the 3 types of AF is even more absurd, taking the corsair body as an example:

Uber Corsair's Frac: Def: 61 STR+5 DEX+5 AGI+10 Accuracy+12 Ranged accuracy+36 Ranged Attack+31 Magic Accuracy+10 Enhances "Random Deal" effect Enhances "Triple Shot" effect Enhances "Tacticican's Roll" effect Set: Augments "Quick Draw"

Well of course this would be the best body piece for almost every situation, pretty much obsoleting everything else in existence, well the storage problem would indeed be solved, but at what cost?
You misunderstood me about the staves. I was talking about the magian staffs for damage/acc/avatar. Pretty much if you get all 8 magic damage +6 magic acc +1 casting time -14%, then instead of having 8 diff staves, you can have 1 that is magic damage +6 magic acc +1 casting time -14% for all 8 elements. Wouldn't be a simple combine in terms of buying from AH, but more of a reward for going through all 8 of those trials. Same can be done for the Magic acc+ staves and the avatar perp cost- staves. I apologize if I wasn't as clear about that.

And about the af, yeah, they would be amazing pieces. But you would also have to work for them. Can make an additional cost when trading all 3 in like there is to turn af into af+1 or relic into relic +1 for example. And there would still be different pieces that would be better then others. But would eliminate pieces like mnk af head/feet/hands which are just macroed in for focus/dodge/boost. Wouldn't have to worry about the extra gear swap/inv space. Again this is just an idea. One that I think would encourage many people to head back to limbus/dynamis to finish making their +1/+2's.