Quote Originally Posted by Okipuit View Post
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".