Enhances Ballads and other stats

[Tupsi]

Interesting idea. I never played before 2.0, but I was kind of sad noticing that a lot of gear had lost such interesting properties, such as relic weapons increasing Flare or Holy damage, instead of just being stat sticks.

Even AF was superior to what we have now in some regards - If they had better base stats and their old "Enhance" traits no one would complain about people using AF lol. Sadly yoshi says we don't need stats like +/- Enmity, TP management, Trait/skill enhancers and so on.

[Sotek]

Even AF was superior to what we have now in some regards - If they had better base stats and their old "Enhance" traits no one would complain about people using AF lol. Sadly yoshi says we don't need stats like +/- Enmity, TP management, Trait/skill enhancers and so on.

The good thing about this is that they wouldn't really be stats, just traits you unlock through gear. With all the stats they removed, plus some from IX, there should be a fair amount of customization to have with such a system, depending on how many you can actively set at once.

Arguably it might result in "You don't have X set? GTFO", but that's pretty much already true for things like Swiftcast, and while that is occasionally an issue, it's hardly a damning critic of the subclass system. Actually, since all you need is the gear to temporarily set something, I'd say that would be less common if anything... You don't have to fully Spiritbind Choral Shirt to set Enhances Ballad, but it will mean you'll be in Choral Shirt instead of Darklight.