The new Allagan set of items needs to have a small customization option.

[SchalaZeal]

Since you can't meld main stats, no crafted gear will ever beat something that has a higher ilvl.

Since you can't get i110 gear unless you're in a large elitist FC (at least for a few weeks) or have very very good pugs (and are willing to go with strangers in coil, even if they're "good" strangers - I know I'm not except to fill holes in my static). i100 gear is not so bad its useless. Unlike what you think.

I mean yes, the higher ilv gear will have higher overall dps, by a small margin. But that margin risks being very very small if you compare i100 with i90 pentamelded. With the additional perk of having VIT on accessories (and not on the tome ones, unless a tank).

I prefer 8 VIT to 4 MND. I prefer 16 crit to 16 any other secondary stat. And I don't really care if my 15 MND i100 accessories would be a tiny tiny bit better than my 13 MND 13 VIT accessories i90.

[NeoAmon]

Since you can't get i110 gear unless you're in a large elitist FC (at least for a few weeks) or have very very good pugs (and are willing to go with strangers in coil, even if they're "good" strangers - I know I'm not except to fill holes in my static). i100 gear is not so bad its useless. Unlike what you think.

This statement is absolutely not true. I started my group from scratch with no FC. All I did was do AK and any player I liked I would ask them if they were interested in forming a static. A week later I got my own group, FCless. One person I know, who is very famous on my server as he is godmode WHM did Coil using LS. He and his best friend created a LS and just added players from many FCs whom did not have a static to raid together, they clear T5 every week. Yes they are part of an FC atm, but they did start from nothing.

[Ninix]

Well that is a major design flaw, now if you want the top gear you HAVE to do Coil. Mixing and matching gear was fun, way to turn the game into even more of a weekly clear.

Needing to clear the hardest content to get the best gear is now apparently a "design flaw".

I don't even...

They should put in reforging in the game. Reforging lets you take 40% of a secondary stat and convert it into 40% of another secondary stat.

Ugh, I really wasn't a fan of reforging. Blizzard isn't either, apparently, since they're getting rid of it in the next expansion.

I'd just rather the ability to supplement the stats on endgame gear with stats of your own, like the gem socketing system in WoW. If only we had such a system in place in ARR...

[SchalaZeal]

This statement is absolutely not true.

Read this part of my statement:

(and are willing to go with strangers in coil, even if they're "good" strangers - I know I'm not except to fill holes in my static).

And yes, this includes going with the same "good strangers" every week and making them your static. If you met them through PF or the likes, definitely not how I work.

Also, you have to clear T5 to run T6, every single week. And even if by chance you managed to clear T5, 6, 7, 8, 9 every single week, you could be gear-less for months anyways. Because RNG. Crafted is costly but at least the gear itself is guaranteed, and materias have no lockout.

Edited to add:

And lastly I PREFER CRAFTED. Yes, seriously. If Vanya didn't have to compete with Argute and Summoner and Allagan gear, I might have actually went ahead and crafted and penta-melded myself an entire i70 set. But seeing as the cost was so high (before philo mat quantities got reduced, and consider penta-melding accessories being millions each) it took me long enough that I was i80 by the time I had the funds, I simply gave up on it and saved the money for housing, since it was 2.1 then.

I did have my Astral accessories, melded with a single VIT IV materia each. My Summoner still uses them to this day (and thus has 4900 HP with party buff and food, even if "only" i80).

I'm convinced that crafted i90 gear will have more longevity due to competing more with i100 than i110 except in the domain of bragging rights. That is, going full-90 won't gimp myself the way going full-crafted-70 would have last patch. Not that I "do" randoms.

[NeoAmon]

You have to clear T5 to run T6, every single week.

News to my eyes. As far as I know you only need to clear T1-T5 once to complete the current quest and then be able to get the new one in 2.2.

So yeah, source please? I don't think SE would go as far as making sure T5 is a gate to T6.

As for 4900 HP, will it is your play style, more power to you. However, you only need 3900 HP as a caster without group buff or food to 7 man Twin.

except in the domain of bragging rights

Not really, it is because main stat makes Allagan 2 superior to crafted gear no matter what you meld. There is no amount of melding you can do that can cover the lose of 6+ main stat points per piece. That is why players want it.

[Oscillate_Wildly]

The only thing that annoys me about this is that Casters, Healers and Tanks probably share the same sets as per usual. < A> It was a bit of an issue with healing because det vs crit.

I really want to see the stats on the new armours. See how much of a difference there is between Gerolt's and Allagan in terms of stats.

[NeoAmon]

The only thing that annoys me about this is that Casters, Healers and Tanks probably share the same sets as per usual. < A> It was a bit of an issue with healing because det vs crit.

I really want to see the stats on the new armours. See how much of a difference there is between Gerolt's and Allagan in terms of stats.

The current gear, from 80 to 90 is 14 points (3 main stat) total stats increase for normal pieces such as the head piece. For body it is 15 points total stats increase. I assume it would be the same going from i100 to i110. It is such a good news for BLM, we will get a very good Crit chance increase if the Allagan 2 is not just filled with stupid SS (310+ ping so it sucks for me).

[Jinko]

You don't need a full set to want customization. It is not just fun to experiment, it raises the value of the best gear in the game . There is also the situation: lel I haz Allagan 2 chest, too bad not enough Acc to use it yet. This is a common issue and won't solve itself for a while.

But that's the way the gear is designed, if you don't like it, wear something else.

There is your customisation right there.

[Galactimus]

Also, you have to clear T5 to run T6, every single week.

False. Beating Twintania for the first time complete's the quest ""Alisaie's Pledge." Completing that quest once is the only requirement for entering the "The Second Coil." It's not a repeatable quest so there's no reason why you'd have to complete it again each week. You also enter "The Second Coil" from a completely different npc; this time in North Shroud.

[Radacci]

Interesting, but also....assumptions.
I'm quite sure the dev team has done extensive combat testing....with those new armors, making sure they are good but not over-the-top.
The only issue is that in case you want to min max, it's only viable to stick with 110 gear, which as you say, leaves little customization....which sux, i guess.

Also allagan scepter is in no shape or form, needed for BLM to perform in T1-5, since you need to kill Twin, to get it; and you can beat her just fine without it.
You dont need to mix and match gear to get acc cap. either myth or allagan works fine, as sets; and so will BC2 gear.

Anyway, i dont remember details, but they did say something along the line: you get stuff from levi, that you combine with something, to get something...
So maybe other 110 armors, than BC2...or just upgrade tome gear to 110, or swap stats on BC2, as you'll be able to do with maxed zodiac weps.
we'll see
But there's no *Fundamental problem* as you suggest.