People sacrifice good gear for "fashion"

[Duelle]

It's as if gear and food were designed to augment your shortcomings. You max out VIT (for example) you were probably expected to wear DEX gear and eat STR food. The normal min/max mindset, though, is if STR = damage then STR STR STR STR everything STR.

...but the game really doesn't work with that mind set. As said, you can fight the "lolbosses" of the game naked. Gear is truly not worth much other than slight boosts (which you can do yourself by reinvesting your attribute points) or aesthetics.

Why do you care what others wear or how they want to play?

I'm kind of picking up that vibe as well. Which is not a bad thing. I've had it with fugly gear with good stats and good-looking gear with terrible stats. I hated the O-hat, I hated all subligaria, and it annoyed me that they were all vastly superior to some of the pieces of gear I could stand to look at. Could we get to perform well in combat without looking like mismatched clowns for once?

[Shai]

I'm kind of picking up that vibe as well. Which is not a bad thing. I've had it with fugly gear with good stats and good-looking gear with terrible stats. I hated the O-hat, I hated all subligaria, and it annoyed me that they were all vastly superior to some of the pieces of gear I could stand to look at. Could we get to perform well in combat without looking like mismatched clowns for once?

Well, I wouldn't get used to it.

The no-restrictions on gear is actually a cool idea, but people need the proverbial carrots in their face to do anything. So I'm sure the days of wearing what you think looks cool or makes you laugh will be gone soon enough. They will lower our attributes and make each attribute worth more, they will make restricted gear.

Don't worry, before long we'll all look exactly the same, again.
We wouldn't want people to stray too far outside their comfort zone for too long.

[Marline]

I'm kind of picking up that vibe as well. Which is not a bad thing. I've had it with fugly gear with good stats and good-looking gear with terrible stats. I hated the O-hat, I hated all subligaria, and it annoyed me that they were all vastly superior to some of the pieces of gear I could stand to look at. Could we get to perform well in combat without looking like mismatched clowns for once?

I thought the O-hat was fugly as hell too, but since everyone was wearing them it started to grew on me and at the end I thought it looked kinda cool. At one part of the game the O-hat represented respect in some way.

[Cairdeas]

I thought the O-hat was fugly as hell too, but since everyone was wearing them it started to grew on me and at the end I thought it looked kinda cool. At one part of the game the O-hat represented respect in some way.

I'd rather wear my riceball headband and sam af and eat shogun riceballs. The bonuses from the riceballs at that point far outweigh the o-hat. and since I could make the riceballs myself. it never hurt me.

[charliesheen]

I'd rather wear my riceball headband and sam af and eat shogun riceballs. The bonuses from the riceballs at that point far outweigh the o-hat. and since I could make the riceballs myself. it never hurt me.

But dude, that's not what everyone else does! That's like blasphemy! You must now be hung, drawn and quartered my friend.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

Honestly I had 0-hat kirin osode, scop harness, leeping and bounding boots and tbh I never saw a difference. And Vent, I wasn't being anything you claimed, sorry if it came out like that. But honestly read your OP. You do come off as a pompus elitist. Gear stats are only meant to suppliment your character. It makes you no better or worse. I've done stuff is the worst gear in ffxi. Like duoing prime avatars in some cheap "gimpy" monk gear subbing dnc. Honestly look at stats on gear in ffxi, most was just +1 or +4 hughest was +10 on kirins. with minir +acc +att etc. Stats in ffxi was 2str= 1 attack point. etc. Oh and for my monk on the avatar fights i used that cloth style level 50 armor sam/nin/mnk used it had the + emt on it and that really it. And I used some crap h32h gear also. Skill in playing is most importent.

Like i said there really is no 1 epic set of gear for all. It goes into how you play or how you set your character up. Gear should never make you better your skill should.