AF4

[Okipuit]

We've seen quite a few requests for ways to enhance artifact armor and other equipment.
You'll be happy to know that the development team is indeed looking into this, but their current priority is content related to the August version update.

As a matter of fact, Producer Matsui Akihiko commented on a couple different occasions already!

We are planning to add high level equipment using graphics of popular existing items as well as revamping job-specific armor.

Full English post here.

Below is an example of the things we have been discussing:

• Addition of battle content that can be undertaken by low-man parties or solo (+NPC)
  The idea is something like an Adoulin version of Meeble Burrows.
• Expansion of synthesis and other non-battle content
• Continued adjustments to reives
• Addition of solo-content that focuses on exploration instead of battle
• Adjustments so that players’ efforts are more naturally tied to colonization
• Revamps and enhancements to equipment
  RMEC weapons, job specific equipment, etc.

To start off, we'll be placing a heavy emphasis on increasing the amount of content variety, supplementing the gaps in content, and making it possible to increase your item level solo or low-man, and we are proceeding to prepare for the implementation of a lot of this.

As we are in midst of working on the July version update as well as the August version update, I'll need a bit more time before I can tell you new information, but I’ll be doing my best to deliver it to you as it becomes available.

Full English post here.

We'll let you know once there is any progress on this!

[Rustic]

We've seen quite a few requests for ways to enhance artifact armor and other equipment.
You'll be happy to know that the development team is indeed looking into this, but their current priority is content related to the August version update.

As a matter of fact, Producer Matsui Akihiko commented on a couple different occasions already!

We'll let you know once there is any progress on this!

Thanks for the response. Inventory and the constant need for gearswap has been a quality of life issue for FFXI that's only gotten worse with expansions. If there's one thing that needs to be known, it's that we don't want to lose the special quirks our AF gives us in the process of upgrades. If we do, then we're often stuck keeping that piece of inventory from an older set around anyway...because otherwise, we sacrifice being able to do something we did before in order to do something else with another. More powerful isn't just it- gear should make more things possible, not merely trade one for another. AF especially, it's literally our "job gear".