Printable View
Our characters definitely feel weaker then before and i keep seeing people say it is due to the fact that the new gear is more powerful and that i should turn my current one into materia.
Is there any truth to this and how do i differentiate old gear from the new one?
Old gear = titled "Dated" in short. There is truth to it as they redid the algorithms for stats so gear benefits are a lot more noticable and needed. There's a lot of uproar about it because for the past year we've been playing a broken game and they're finally getting the major adjustments out of the pipeline.
Yes the new gear generally has much superior def stats, you should prob try and change as soon as possible.
That being said any armor mismatched by 5 levels above your current will have a massive penalty on def, check the (-negative) stat next to your def in the gear window for example.