Can accessories please be limited to jobs that benefit from it?

[loreleidiangelo]

And your solution is to make others suffer through your terrible gear decisions instead? Sorry, I have a little consideration for my fellow adventurers time.

You are suggesting killing the SB market to correct a problem that, quite frankly, only persists in the most marginalized and infrequent of cases.

A more elegant solution would be to enforce this sort if thing via DF only, not in premades or in open-world content. Put your pitchfork down, already, and look for a logical outcome.

[Gramul]

Only if it doesn't effect glamors.

[HeavensSword]

As long as I can still equip STR accessories on tanks. I like having the option to equip extra STR on my PLD when the content is easier and can use the DPS boost.

[CrystalRainbow]

Just because it's best for job X doesn't mean it can't help other jobs.

[Gilraen]

This is bad and you should feel bad. Seriously, for tanks especially, some roles have to wear accessories from other roles. I say tanks especially because tank gear has a rather marked lack of accuracy. It's weird, too, given you have to actually hit the mobs to keep their attention. To make up for this you have to wear DD accessories if you don't want to give up tank defense. The same goes for healers that are able to DD effectively, barely any healer gear gives accuracy and you need it to land spells reliably. It really does come down to what benefits you the most. So people will wear out-of-role accessories to spiritbond. Who cares, so long as they do what they're supposed to and everything runs smoothly.

[CYoung187]

lol he should feel bad? Nobody is arguing tanks using dps accessories, but there is no reason to wear a caster accessory. There are plenty of accessories that offer almost 0 benefit for certain jobs. It is certainly an overblown problem though, I personally don't think I have ever seen it happen.

[Arrik]

I think the easiest way to fix this is bringing back gear favoring certain jobs. For example, lets take the Dreadwyrm Choker of Slaying. The item would still be equip-able by all jobs, but have it favor PLD WAR MNK DRG (and probably their base classes). If one of those jobs equips the choker, it gives the full ilvl to the average ilvl calculation. If one of the jobs that isn't favored equips it, it counts as an ilvl 0 piece of gear for the average ilvl calculation only. Can still wear what you want, can still glamour it as a non-favored job, but can't cheat the average with it.

[Roll]

I didn't mean "Tanks only wear vit gear, etc." Here's the rundown on stats (not sub stats like acc, ss, etc.)

Str=Melee dmg and dmg prevented from parry/blocks
Dex=Ranged dmg, dmg dealth by rog/nin and parry/block rates
Vit=Max hp
Int=attack magic potency
Mnd=healing magic potency
Pie=max mp

So for Plds, Str/Dex/Vit/Mnd/Pie is beneficial. Int is completely useless.
I've seen a lot of new players wearing things that don't make sense like that and I'm not saying "Healer's gotta wear all mnd/pie or nothing!" Just at least not str/dex gear because even int could be beneficial like if they don't go into Cleric Stance. But str/dex on them? You know if you see Str/Dex on a healer you know something is wrong lol

[IceWing]

I didn't mean "Tanks only wear vit gear, etc." Here's the rundown on stats (not sub stats like acc, ss, etc.)

Str=Melee dmg and dmg prevented from parry/blocks
Dex=Ranged dmg, dmg dealth by rog/nin and parry/block rates
Vit=Max hp
Int=attack magic potency
Mnd=healing magic potency
Pie=max mp

So for Plds, Str/Dex/Vit/Mnd/Pie is beneficial. Int is completely useless.
I've seen a lot of new players wearing things that don't make sense like that and I'm not saying "Healer's gotta wear all mnd/pie or nothing!" Just at least not str/dex gear because even int could be beneficial like if they don't go into Cleric Stance. But str/dex on them? You know if you see Str/Dex on a healer you know something is wrong lol

All jobs can parry while stupid if the boost to parry was massive, I could see a whm putting dex accessories on if it prevented them dying while taking hate off a bad tank.

[Tyrn]

I, for one, like my glamour pieces thank you very much, I'd rather not go back to Titan and grind every single type of earring, do mog for every type of ribbon, etc, and have to spend all my inventory space on just accessories.