Huge Reddit thread about unique stats

[Ryel]

you can't gear swap mid battle. So what we're proposing is picking a set with the bonuses you like, entering a fight with that set
and then being stuck with those unique bonuses for the duration of the fight. This way you would need to wisely pick your
gear.

You should probably read a bit more carefully as i opened with

As stated before this actually was in ver. 1.xx but was removed when 2.0 launched and is a feature i miss greatly as well.

and followed up with this

This issue with comparing XI's take on this however..

In which the comment about gear swapping was made, not that it WOULD be done in this game (or could be)

[KoujiGeki]

You should probably read a bit more carefully as i opened with



and followed up with this



In which the comment about gear swapping was made, not that it WOULD be done in this game (or could be)

well they COULD easily add it cause you can already make the job switching macros with gear swaps, all theyd have to do is allow it to be able to change armor using the macros in battle. but again i guess it just to stressful to people.

[Dark-Saviour]

well they COULD easily add it cause you can already make the job switching macros with gear swaps, all theyd have to do is allow it to be able to change armor using the macros in battle. but again i guess it just to stressful to people.

I try not to mix game mechanics and logic too often, but there just seems something blatantly wrong about changing my knickers while some demonic entity is wailing on me.

That said, I do like the idea of unique gear feeling unique (which is why I actually like it having no materia slots).
And though I still say such basic passives are almost as boring as the current stats, I wouldn't really be opposed to their inclusion... Would work best if they stopped all vertical progression and just focused on horizontal progression though, IMO, but I guess that's a pipe-dream...

[Volsung]

EDIT: not going to get into it over wording. its worded poorly

[Ryel]

I'm sorry but the moment you said "While it kept quite a lot of gear relevant some gear was left "BiS" for certain WS/Spells/Abilites for far longer than they should have been and i'm not sure people want to go back to mid battle blinking gear-swaps lol."

That strictly is talking about if we had random stats we would have to go back to gear swapping mid battle.
If thats not what you meant you were entirely too unclear.

Nope that comment was only about the comparison to XI's system nothing further, like i said i do like and miss the concept of unique stats on gear and would like to see them return.

[KoujiGeki]

I'm sorry but the moment you said "While it kept quite a lot of gear relevant some gear was left "BiS" for certain WS/Spells/Abilites for far longer than they should have been and i'm not sure people want to go back to mid battle blinking gear-swaps lol."

That strictly is talking about if we had random stats we would have to go back to gear swapping mid battle.
If thats not what you meant you were entirely too unclear.

you just made me think about that why cant we have gear swap the whole reason why people didnt like it in 11 was you disappeared, you dont do that in 14 so why cant we have it again?

[Devilray]

you just made me think about that why cant we have gear swap the whole reason why people didnt like it in 11 was you disappeared, you dont do that in 14 so why cant we have it again?

The blinking issue was easily fixable, but the general player did not know how to do it.