Gear with Set Bonuses and the Revision of Old Gear

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Originally Posted by Jennestia

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I think this is basically saying you did lol. The only gimmicky ones were Auto-Refresh or Conserve TP type set bonuses -- Majority were actually worth using for quite awhile. Stats only overtook the setbonus when they raised the cap and added new gear.

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Yes, I did say NEARLY, lets name a couple more that were gimmicky or completely underwhelming due to other gear since you only listed Auto-Refresh and Conserve TP.

Accuracy set bonus, Double Attack set bonus, Crit Rate Increase, Magic Attack Bonus, Max HP Boost, Magic Defense Bonus, Subtle Blow Bonus, Reduced magic and breath damage, Increased Attack, Increase all elemental resistances, Increased magic accuracy, Enhanced Counter...

I'm going to stop, because it just keeps going on and on and on. I never denied that there weren't good set bonuses, just most of them were never worth a thought because of how much you actually lost just for the pathetic bonus.

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Originally Posted by OranGemeo

Hey all!

So I've been quite loyal to XIV for sometime, and I've seen the idea of having "set" bonuses like in XI and I think its a wonderful idea. It also goes to another point I'd like to make, and I hope many of you agree.

I really want set bonuses with the incoming artifact armor we're going to be getting soon (or job-specific, w/e they wanna call it). I believe that some gear, while may not being 100% better than what you can get in another that's not a part of a set, should become valuable at some point through the inclusion of a set bonus. This should go and be applied to previous sets of gear, as well.

To name a few...
Sipahi (Not sure wth anyone would want most of this gear for unless they fix the stats, but I like to think it's PUG related and evasion related.)
Sorcerers
Templar's (could use some overall updates to stats, and maybe set bonus could grant auto-cover to anyone behind the target... or something idk)
Harlequins
Buccaneers. (Updates to stats to reflect the ranged attacker in the game, and set bonus could give a Snapshot effect like XI - where you don't always consume an arrow or ranged attack (chakram,thowing spear, etc)

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Good call. I really hope they do this.