Will SUMMONER always share gear with BLM

[yukikaze_yanagi]

Yes they will because Yoshi feels it would stress the community if you have specialized stats for your job to gear for.

sadly for you, there is no "specialized" stat between blm and smn, since they deal the same kind of damage. both need int to deal damage, vit, determination and spell speed. I don't think it will work wonder making gear with int-blm and int-smn because of fashion.
Special stat like "augment skill" have yet to be seen, but nothing prevent them to make the same equip with double effect like "on blm: this, on smn: that"

[SummonerSenah]

I have SMN and BLM both at 50 so I don't really mind. Sometimes, though, I get excited when I'm the only SMN in the party in CT and think I have no competition for gear until I realize I share it with BLM.

[NefGP]

I'm more interested in when SMN will actually play like SMN and not some psudo-RDM with crappy pets.

[Warlyx]

FFXIV has boring vertical gear

[Ryios]

If your a drg and you can't get drops... Come join our static, it's all that ever drops, we got 3 drg chests 3 weeks in a row, rings, neck, boots, pants, gloves, you name it, every freagin week. It never stops. And when it's not drg, it's mnk/pgl and we don't even have a mnk in the group.

At least this week we got 1 tank drop, the rest was drg/mnk gear and brd accessories.

[Alhanelem]

FFXIV has boring vertical gear

Horizontal gear isn't any more fun. Stats are not "fun", at least not independently. The loot itself, its looks, and then whether its in any way useful or not is what matters. I'm not really sure how "enhances <blah> effect" is more "fun" than "crit rate + X".

Also, there are multiple sets now at seveal tiers, so it's not like there are not any horizontal options to choose from.

e.g. i love the look of the armor of light and I had fun getting it. That matters to me way more than the stats.

[Itchyness]

Well, we'll look different once vanity releases (god knows when that'll be though).

[Kantide]

If it were 90% DRG drops, I'd have my mask, gloves, body and ring...haven't seen any of those yet.

This week it was mostly caster drops with some tank for us.

Remember how Phantasy Star Online gave you a section ID that influenced drops like Yellowboze (more meseta dropped) or Greenill (more rifles dropped) ... I think we all have one of these secretly in XIV and depending on your party make up of IDs it determines your drops. I know this is all speculation but sometimes the RNG seems to favor certain jobs. I remember one CT run where only MNK gear dropped and then the next run we got the same drops. Was pretty surreal.

[Volsung]

I think this stems from the fact that our stats are very basic in what does what, and we only have vertical progression.

If there was more horizontal progression and extra types of stats we might see stuff like:

"firestarter proc up" or "enhanced ifrit egi" on gear. which I think would add a lot of flavor
to the game.

[Kantide]

I think this stems from the fact that our stats are very basic in what does what, and we only have vertical progression.

If there was more horizontal progression and extra types of stats we might see stuff like:

"firestarter proc up" or "enhanced ifrit egi" on gear. which I think would add a lot of flavor
to the game.

The sad thing is the AF at the end of 1.0 HAD these things and it needs to come back. It would allow for a lot more different play styles for classes.