I have to admit, gear in FFXIV is far to vanilla for my tastes. Every single item you can 'upgrade' to is just the same as before with a recolor and a few extra levels added on. Even the original Guild Wars had more horizontal variety than this game does. The problem is the developers are too scared to add unique and interesting stats in the fear that one piece will be coveted above the others.

Truth be told this happens anyway, but people turn a blind eye to it for some reason.

It would be nice to have a little... no, a lot more flavor to our stats. There's only so much of the same thing a player can take before it gets stale and boring.