Skill-Specific Gear

[Gormogon]

Skill enhancing materia over skill enhancing gear.

Though obviously there has to be a way to make sure players understand where that materia goes and can be solved by being categorized as the following.

B: Body (defensive skills) Example. (Featherfoot, Keenflurry, Bulwark, etc)
F: Feet (movement skills) Example. (Shoulder Tackle, Elusive and Spineshatter Jump, Repelling Shot, etc)
G: Gloves (buffing skills) Example. (Blood for Blood, Raging Strikes, Internal Release, Bloodbath, etc)
H: Head (utility skills) Example. (Fluid Aura, Sleep, Freeze, Repelling shot, Tri-disaster, Leg Sweep, Brutal Swing, etc)
S: Shield (Mitigation skills) Example. (Manawall, Stoneskin, Rampart, etc)
W: Weapon (Damage skills) Example. (Combo finishers and job damaging abilities)

Should be easier to manage, balance, and look over than gear that's ever changing.

[Barboron]

Skill enhancing materia over skill enhancing gear.

This was my first thought while watching it on Tuesday. Although would that mean that people would still be forced/required then to get crafted gear? Perhaps some of the coil/tome gear could have these stats and make them materia enhanced also so you can go either way.

NO to improve the skills using gear... I'm already tired of gear progression...

YES to this idea: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ills-or-traits.

NO to this idea

YES to this idea: Leave it as it is

[Gormogon]

This was my first thought while watching it on Tuesday. Although would that mean that people would still be forced/required then to get crafted gear? Perhaps some of the coil/tome gear could have these stats and make them materia enhanced also so you can go either way.

Well I agree there should be options. It shouldn't be gated behind just Crafters and AH since that wouldn't be fair.