Why make it so difficult to gear up our non-caster DPS?

The reason tanks, healers, and mages are "favored", in a sense, in terms of gear distribution is because these jobs are traditionally underrepresented in parties. Bards, Dragoons, and now Ninjas are the "cool" jobs so there's no need to push players toward them. If you supply-side economics the tank/healer/mage gear, more people are likely to play those jobs.

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Originally Posted by Ophie-Mio

Unfortunately I pay attention to all my stats and the lack of stats of what I want for my specific jobs irritates me. If I want my SCH to be fully crit based, it won't happen cause of the system as it currently is. I'm not calling you specifically lazy but the mentality of some of the gamers who play MMOs is lazy.

I'm used to an MMO where I got the exact stats on the gear I wanted and two healing jobs had different things. Why would a smn and blm have the same gear if they don't even use the same stats? Why would a smn want spellspeed? They wouldn't. Why would my powerhouse cure WHM care about the off chance that the cure crits for more and just overflows into nothing? It doesn't.

I'll admit that it is nice that my blm automatically gears my smn but as someone who gears jobs at a decent rate, I'd rather work more and spend more time busy in an MMO than not.

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Lazy has nothing to do with it. Caps on weekly poetics and coil lockouts mean you can only gear your "best" jobs so fast.

Besides, then there's the problem with the loot table bloat. Tanks/healers/casters sharing loot means more loot that drops gets used.

The best way to set it up (IMO) is to split the best gear between coil & tomestones, so neither class gets their perfect BIS unless you're doing both. But you still get decent enough gear for your backup class if a situation arises where you would prefer to use that instead.

Now if they made say, mnk and drg share gear, that would mean that either mnk would have to lose their magic defense or *gasp* drg would gain some. Also, mnk or drg would gain/lose physical defense.

As for why brd and nin can't share.. meh

The real problem is the current loot system, 8 "end game" loot a week divided into the 4 Coil Turns. When future jobs are added, I see 2 things that could happen that I do not like:

1. Under this current loot system the more jobs they add with separate gear, the less chance of you getting what you want per week for your main job.

2. If they make new jobs share stats/gear, in my opinion this is dull and unimaginative.

My solution would be that when you add "end game" raids/dungeons whatever. Yes, make separate unique gear/stats but instead of having 2 loot per boss fight, which could also have a "chance" to increase to something like 3~5 loot from chests; create more ways for this loot to be dropped within these raids/dungeons. Trash mobs in my opinion should have a chance to drop armor or the items used to upgrade tome gear. No one likes doing trash currently, this would make it more interesting and have some worth. Eventually though, I can see that you will have to increase the amount of loot earned per fight or it's going to get very frustrating like I said when many more jobs are around.

Also, just another opinion. Coil for me has never really felt like an end game "raid". You have 4 areas "turns" that just feel like separate Trails like Ultima/Primals. To me a "raid" should be more like a dungeon, and sure in coil there are some trash mobs before boss. But it's all chopped up into 4 separate dungeons and in between some little "job change" zone.

If you only had "The Binding Coil of Bahamut", "The Second Coil of Bahamut" and "The Final Coil of Bahamut" as 3 seperate dungeons-styled areas I think this would be much more interesting to play through. Of course progress would still be saved down to each mob killed etc.

Lol, I got a bit carried away in the end.