Request for percentage based gear

Title is pretty straight forward.

Examples. Have a piece of gear, say a body piece that would specify something along the lines of "Attack Magic Damage +7%" or "Weapon Skill Damage +7%" as an example.

You could even go as far as having a piece of gear say something like "Intelligence +2%." Either way I think it creates a lot of options.

The whole reason seems kind of obvious. Having "Attack Magic Potency +7" doesn't drastically increase damage on attack magic spells. However, if it were to say "Attack Magic Damage +7%," then we could actually see that 7% boost. This would work toward the efforts of people complaining that gear does nothing.

So, you couldn't say gear does nothing anymore! You can say it does a percentage more, and the numbers be justified.

or simply increase the numbers of every piece

Yea agreed percentages would probably be a better way to convey information in general at least for comparing gear.

There is nothing to stop having both though, for example percentage next to the stat in brackets.

Right now it displays the gear stat and the difference in brackets (just change that difference to a percentage)

Haste % + gear please! Speed belt, Byakko's Haidate etc...

HQ used to be % based and look where it got us...


in the end, % based or +stat based its all the same, one being higher % then another is the exact same as one being higher +stat then another

It's the same data presented differently. In the end we would gain nothing.

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Originally Posted by Molly_Millions

It's the same data presented differently. In the end we would gain nothing.

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Exactly.

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Does it matter that there is a "7" on an item instead of "7%"?

Nope (Chuck Testa)

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Originally Posted by Prox

Haste % + gear please! Speed belt, Byakko's Haidate etc...

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They said no to this long time ago already, the developer saw that in FFXI as a huge mistake in decision and even if they do implement it they said they are going to make sure they wont make the same mistake again.

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Originally Posted by DoctorMog

Exactly.

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Does it matter that there is a "7" on an item instead of "7%"?

Nope (Chuck Testa)

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Yes because 7% is much higher than +7 :P

Plus I agree haste gear is not a good idea.

Well, because of how large our stats are right now, even having +20 of a stat on a piece of gear is probably no more than a 2-3% increase in the given stat.

So this is why there are always complaints about gear doing nothing. The whole idea with percentages is so you know exactly what you're getting.

We either need this, or for stats to be lowered overall. But judging by the stats we can get on Materia, that's more than likely not going to easily happen any time soon.

Also, for those that played Final Fantasy XI, we know the difference between something that said "Magic Attack Bonus +7" and "Magic Potency +7%"

% Gear definitely! Not only does it scale with level and to a certain point, that certain point is why you'd seek out better gear/food that has higher % cap per level range, which thus injects new life into the economy and better forms of itemization possible.

Raw stat additions does nothing for us currently till you hit a very high number due to higher base, so percentages would actually be better for our high base stats.

I like idea of percentage on unique gears so it will scales as we levelled up. That doesnt mean raw numbers is bad either, it will probably goes likr percentage is better until you can at least triple melds gears.

Aside from scaling, %+ gives min/maxers a fun time figuring out optimum payouts. Personally I'm not really fussed if it is there or not though.

% does seem lovely to me

It also gives more gear choices. Especially if you match certain things with solid stats. Like having a body piece with a solid stat, mixed with legs that have a % stat, just as a rough example.

Then we can have arguments such as "so and so set is better, and here's why!" Instead of "hey gais, we killed Ifrit in swim suits!"

And as someone said earlier, it makes scaling gear make more sense. I think of tamas and rajas ring, where the stat rose as you gained levels. It was a good idea that was rarely used.

Also, having percentage based gear can maybe be unique to end game content. It's definitely going to boost you in ways that materia can not. BUT, it'll make you want to match certain materia to make the best out of your percentage based gear. I think it's a much better idea seeing STR+9% on a body piece, compared to STR+30 on one, just as an example. It'll make people aim for certain melds, and in my opinion, satisfy the epeen players, as well as the casual players.

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

They said no to this long time ago already, the developer saw that in FFXI as a huge mistake in decision and even if they do implement it they said they are going to make sure they wont make the same mistake again.

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Wow really? I loved haste build in XI when it came to melee and especially with Utsusemi. They were high valued items in XI.

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Originally Posted by Prox

Wow really? I loved haste build in XI when it came to melee and especially with Utsusemi. They were high valued items in XI.

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And game breaking as well, depending on which side of the fence you were standing.

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Originally Posted by Prox

Wow really? I loved haste build in XI when it came to melee and especially with Utsusemi. They were high valued items in XI.

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Yeah I loved getting haste to the point where my Scythe was swinging almost at 1 hand speed :D Haste builds were great, the only problem was because haste was great to have people charged ridiculous amounts of gil for even 1% haste (Blitz Ring) when it didn't need to be so expensive lol.

Funny enough, they didn't want haste here because it was a 'mistake in xi', but in xiv the stats are so awkwardly done that slow doesn't even really affect you, let alone getting a real boost from large stat increases through materia atm.