Job-Specific (Artifact) Gear

I am hoping the Materia system does not wreck the Job-specific when it comes out. One thing I am hoping for is one of two things.

1. Traits that materia can't top such as (Example: Red Wizard :P shut up you knew it was coming!)

Black Mage gloves could have: Intelligence +5 Magic Attack +5 Spell cost rate -25%

Some traits like that, materia doesn't have any type that can do that.

2. Full-Set Bonus: Under the effect of wearing all of a job-specific gear you get an awesome bonus.

Paladin's with a full set of job-specific gear on should get: -25% Damage Reduction.

Personally I would love both, but if I had to chose one? I'd go with Full-set Bonus. I like matching sets of armor. Maybe we could put atleast one materia into it as well, like some people have already suggested?

I really hope so too - as cool as materia is - the stats are a little absurd and make a lottttttttt of gear in the game pointless

Which is why I am praying for something amazing on the gear. It looks awesome, hopefully the stats are as great as they look.

I agree. If you can't put materia in it there's pretty much no point to wearing it :/ Ifrit weapons aside. Looking forward to AF so I hope they don't make it worthless.

Maybe it'll have materia slots heh (nope :*( )

I'm hoping for Full-Set Bonus as well!

my concern is when I get job gear will I ever bother with other gear again? will i bother with materia?
i dont see how Artifact gear and Materia can coexist. I'm so confused and don't know if I should be grinding materia at all now.

I vote yes to full set bonus, no to materia slots.

Taking XI as an example, some sets were great, some had a couple good pieces, others were pretty terrible.

For BLM for example, you can only get INT on legs, head, and weapons via materia. Other slots have little-to-nothing (except some ok bodies). Bonuses unique to the slot are enough to warrant use over materia. VIT on PLD head, heal potency on WHM body are other possibilities. Unique effects and set bonuses wouldn't be bad either, but unique-to-slot seems more likely.

If they made rare/ex. gear in general the same stat wise as a 1-2 materia slotted armor, then I can see the balance. It would be fair, since it is still a real low chance of ever three slotting a piece of armor through materia.

I am in favor of bonuses also to full sets. Creates an incentive to get everything.

Another I like to see, unless they decide to go the tier set route, is to make quests or requirements in the future to upgrade your AF when it gets outdated. Don't make it easy of course, but give you an opportunity to still shine in the AF you like.

Wardrobe system. I will mention this at least once a week until they decide to do it. A system of being able to choose what you want to wear over armor with the actual stats on it. Like I have Cobalt Cuirass on me, but I want the look of the PLD AF body. I could go to an NPC or have a tab on the menu and convert it over and reset it at will. This would help create uniqueness with characters in the game, since a major complaint with everyone is that they look the same. Have pieces that don't match? Find something that does and use the wardrobe system.

I am disappointed that SE of all people has made no mention of one or at least acknowledge it, especially how fashion oriented the FF community is, I know I am. So many MMO's have gotten into it, I think it is SE's turn to take a shot at it. :P