Less Gear

Instead of making a new piece of armor that gets thrown out for each level why not focus on quality visual armor every 5 levels and add horizontal progression within that piece of armor. We have so much materia why not add unique slots to a cool looking level 80 gear that unlocks a special slot that requires enhancement with a materia or with a disciple of hand?

So at level 81 or 82 a unique item is required to be made or obtained (easily) in order to strengthen the armor. Perhaps when the armor is upgraded it changes slightly visually or give the visual choices to the player to select from.

All the gear from 80 to 90 you can buy from the market board is copy paste from other things like PVP( so one more reason to not go there ), and the previous lvl80gear with different names, the tombstone gears all look like garbage in this Expansion, I literally didn't put anything in my glamor dresser yet this expansion, because a lot of them are just copy paste, and what you can get from tombstones are just garbage looking, everything looks like a full Dragon set, and I play as a Bard. The new Ex Weapons are like 3D printed plastic pieces... overall a big disappointment when it comes to glamour this expansion, the biggest one so far from any of them.