More gear!

FFXIV is one of the few MMOs i really enjoy playing, but there is something missing. When you see other games like ffxiv you
will almost always have some alternatives when it comes to gear as you level up. Sadly this game doesn't give you many choices.

First it was darklight being the best at ilvl 70, then it the gear from CT being ilvl 80, myth being ilvl 90 (allagan ilvl 90) and soldiery
being ilvl 100 (high allagan gear ilvl 110). Hopefully you get my drift.

What i want to address is the fact that we have nothing that can really compete with these sets (asides from a few crafts). You build
you soldiery gear and that's it. I want to have some alternatives, more sets at the same ilvl, so that not everyone clinges to this path made by SE.

Don't get me wrong, i don't mind the grinding for items and I love getting higher ilvl items, but I would like to see SE adding
not just one new set of armor each patch at an ilvl 10 higher than the last one.

All that will happen if what you suggest is implemented, is you will get everyone wearing the same mix n match sets to achieve BiS. If you don't want to look the same as everyone else, glamour your gear - simple.

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Originally Posted by R1dder

First it was darklight being the best at ilvl 70, then it the gear from CT being ilvl 80, myth being ilvl 90 (allagan ilvl 90) and soldiery
being ilvl 100 (high allagan gear ilvl 110). Hopefully you get my drift.

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Darklight is the cheapest ilevel70 gear. The best ilevel70 gear is crafted ilevel70 HQ with 5 materia IV in it. The same with ilevel90 gear.

With 2.3 you can choose between soldiery gear and CT2 gear (both ilevel 100)

Patch 2.3 which launches in 9 days will give you a bit of the variety you are asking for. Crystal tower will drop ilvl 100 gear which will be an alternative to weathered soldiery gear. You will also be able to complete daily Hunts which will give you currency which you can turn in for gear and weapons. The ilvls of which are atm unknown but if the other rewards (sands/oil of time) are any indication the gear/weapons could potentially be on par with crystal tower giving you a third option.

That's what I wish for too, a bit more stuff to chose from, without being forced to glamour EVERYTHING.
I want to have a variety of gear to chose frome.

Now its:
For Darklight grind dungeons, for which you need to be ilvl58+ (brilliant idea SE), and be lucky to get the drop you want.
Crafted ilvl70 gear. SOME of it is better, some of it is not.
Mytho/Allagan some of them are so UTTERLY bad I really wonder what SE thought.
CT Gear *shrugs*
Crafted ilvl90 gear. SOME of it is better, some of it is not. HQ is beyond any means expensive for the more casual players, making it yourself is even for the more hardcore crafters harder.
Hi Allagan/Soldery havent seen a lot of high alagan stuff yet, but soldery? without the appropriate 2nd Coil drop I wouldn't use them for anything but glamour, and some of them are so ugly it hurts.

And that "with 5 materia IV in it" does YOUR chocobo dropings are made of pure gold, mine are not


So we have per class at lvl50 8 sets to chose from. Which seems like a lot at first, but than you look at the stats and see "with these base stats I have no use for" and for some classes you have a whooping choice of 2 pieces left.


Glamour shouldn't be the only thing to put variance into a game, but one of many.

True a lot of players still would run around in cookie cutter BiS things. It also happened in FFXI. But FFXI had things that were an achievement of its own accord to get, but had other things that were good enough as replacement without making the hard to get part worth nil.

What we need are craftable sets (<--- notice plural SE) for each job. No stats, just for the glamour system. This is what we need. We also need glamours to be job specific: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...97#post2205797 (show your support! xD)

I hope the design team will give us way more variety eventually.

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Originally Posted by Felis

Darklight is the cheapest ilevel70 gear. The best ilevel70 gear is crafted ilevel70 HQ with 5 materia IV in it. The same with ilevel90 gear.

With 2.3 you can choose between soldiery gear and CT2 gear (both ilevel 100)

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Yea, you're right. I would like to see some more farmable gear that can compete with the gear we have (which we will see in the new CT).
I just want to see an expansion to what we have, not just additions in ilvl. Hope they take this further to give us some more variety.

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Originally Posted by Kimikryo

Now its:
For Darklight grind dungeons, for which you need to be ilvl58+ (brilliant idea SE), and be lucky to get the drop you want.

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Where do you need to be Ilvl 58? The 3 expert dungeons are 55. High level ones are 48. Also Darklight arent the only ilvl 70 gear drops. There are other sets too in dungeons that are ilvl 70. Plus while you are farming dungeons for ilvl 70 gear you are earning myth and soldiery for ilvl 90/100 gear.

Where was it confirmed that CT2 was i100?

EDIT: found it. was pretty obvious too seeing as they wouldn't go I90 (like how coil 1-5 was i90 but CT was i80) and they weren't gonna go higher than i100. So much gearz.