OK, I really don't know if someone already brought this up, but I've been thinking lately and noticed the armory chest and your worn equipment can be really cumbersome to manage, specially when you have multiple classes with different levels which you end up having multiple equipment sets for.
Now, one thing that's present in almost every Final Fantasy game out there which would be really beneficial to this game, is the fabled OPTIMIZE EQUIPMENT button. You just press it, and you automatically wear the "best" gear you can wear from your inventory. Now, in FFXIV specifically, that could be configurable, you could choose 1 or 2 attributes you'd want to base that priority on (say, defense and vitality, or mind and piety). Then you woulnd't need to worry about mousing over every piece of chest you have in your armoury chest every time you level up a class to figure out if you/to what you want to change your worn gear. You could just hit the optmize button and the algorithm would exchange your gear. Then you could save your gear set, of course that doesn't mean we'd get rid of gear sets. It'd be just a tool to help us organize that kind of stuff.
You know... like you can in almost every Final Fantasy game there is.
Well, thoughts?
OPTIMIZE EQUIPMENT button, why not?
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10-12-2013, 12:53 AMAlexionSkylarkOPTIMIZE EQUIPMENT button, why not?
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10-12-2013, 01:00 AMRyuPower
most optimize are if the def is highest=best
BUT
in this
some times a weaker eq is better, it might have less def but it give you stats boosts that you needed
it better to look are the eq and pick you you think would be best for you -
10-12-2013, 01:05 AMtwigglypuff
im sure SE programmers can develop algorthms to do this well, not just based on defense. But usually, higher defense on gear peieces ment for your class means its higher level, which means it gives more stats. I dont think ive ever seen a peice with lower defense giving higher main stats for your class. It all goes up in unison.
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10-12-2013, 01:08 AMSinthThis is not always the case for DRG as they can wear leather or scale/light plate. However, there should be no concern if the optimize button simply selected the highest equippible iLVL gear you had. Not all items provide defense...Quote:
Originally Posted by twigglypuff
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10-12-2013, 01:10 AMtwigglypuffmy very first sentence still holds trueQuote:
Originally Posted by Sinth
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10-12-2013, 01:12 AMSomeonewithclap
Not really needed, they are so few sets of gear at 50 it doesnt matter much. If you can't decide between your AF2 chest and lvl 60 green from AK, there might be a bigger issue. Oh, and gear before 50 is irrelevent, because it doesnt matter.
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10-12-2013, 01:19 AMAmiabelle
I would LOVE to have an Optimize button, especially if I had the option to define what "Optimize" meant. I currently have 10 or 11 (can't remember which) classes up and running and, even though they're all pretty much evenly leveled, it's still a PITA making sure each one is optimally dressed. But even if I couldn't define "optimize", it would still be faster to tweak an outfit than it currently is to go over each and every piece of gear individually.
I wholeheartedly support an Optimize option (key word, "option", for those who apparently enjoy mousing over every piece of gear).
Here's your Like, OP :). -
10-12-2013, 01:36 AMAlexionSkylarkAnd that's the kind of pseudo-elitist comment this discussion really don't need. Plz close the door on your way out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Someonewithclap
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10-12-2013, 01:45 AMSigvaldus
Or just give every class their own armoury tab so it dose not get confussing....
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10-12-2013, 01:46 AMAlcyon_Densetsu
Considering the incredible time-sink that simply going through all gear in my inventory ─for all slots─ is everytime I want to switch job (or, more often, level up), I would very much welcome an "optimize" button.
I can't count how many times I used sub-par gear simply because I missed one piece of equipment, especially considering it's impossible to keep it sorted since every switch will actually swap a piece with another (I'd like to at least have gear sorted by level/kind of stat). So I've given up on sorting gear manually and just go through all 25 slots x 13 slots (at worst) when I level up, if I wanna make sure I'm optimized. I takes way too long, so I just don't do it that often.
But I'd wager we'll get that feature from addons, not from the barebone client. -
10-12-2013, 01:46 AMEmSix
SE plz make me a button to remove choices from me
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10-12-2013, 03:36 AMAlexionSkylark
Please explain that.
Why would something "remove choices", when it's just a button that you can CHOOSE not to?
if anything, it'll ADD choices. -
10-12-2013, 03:44 AMAggrobanana
Perhaps a "sort by item level" button would be more useful, without removing the fun of optimizing gear. Picking gear, and hence customizing your character, is a big part of RPG gameplay, if I'm not mistaken.
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10-12-2013, 04:03 AMAlexionSkylark
well, if you WANT to do it manually, nothing would stop you.
this would jsut be a feature for us, people who don't find it fun to go through 10-15 pieces of gear for each slot to choose what to wear... for EVERY CLASS you have EVERY TIME you level up. -
10-12-2013, 04:12 AMSidious
Why don't we just add an auto-battle button while we're at it? It can be so cumbersome to learn new rotations on 10 different classes. I'd like the game to always just do what is optimal for me.
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10-12-2013, 04:54 AMAlexionSkylark
trolls gonna be trolls.
So, anyone else with meaninful thoughts? -
10-12-2013, 05:06 AMElurra
I think it would be a nice feature. If you're on WHM, it could optimize for healing. If you're on PLD, it could optimize for HP/Def. Etc.
The coming sort features should help with this a lot, though. Hopefully we can do stuff like put items I can wear first and sort by iLevel descending, which should put the best thing you can wear in the first slot. -
10-13-2013, 03:40 AMFelisThat get fixed with 2.1Quote:
Originally Posted by Alcyon_Densetsu
But it is called "sort" button, not "optimize" button.
You would can sort for ilevel so you find that equip with the highest ilevel.
I hope that we can also sort for other stats, so I can as example find the equip with the highest crit rate.
It would choose for youQuote:
Originally Posted by AlexionSkylark
This would confuse lot moreQuote:
Originally Posted by Sigvaldus
"Where is the robe for my ACN? Oh, in the CNJ tab." -
10-13-2013, 03:52 AMCatofNineTails
why not fix the set equip first! having several jobs going and you happen to make room by removing what should be a unused piece can and does disable entire sets from being equipped.
"set has one or more pieces missing" so wont equip anything in fact the entire set is now useless. why not equip all the pieces that are there and leave the missing slots blank so we know what was missing and which slots to replace and update the set. -
10-13-2013, 04:09 AMOrganizationXIllGearsets. That is all. Pick your best and update your gearset. Then if you have multiple per class (why?) you can just name them. I think if people actually used gear sets every time, all the time and they added sorting by item level then alphabetically inside those, all issues would be solved inventory-wise.Quote:
Originally Posted by AlexionSkylark
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10-13-2013, 04:29 AMJocko
Why don't they actually make gear varied and interesting as to not leave us in the sad reality where an 'optimize gear' button is actually a viable thing?