Please stop asking SE to make FFXIV more easy!

[Lemuria]

FFXI was over 10 years of content on a horizontal progression - meaning there's a lot of old content that you can do and still obtain decent rewards from it.#
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FFXIV is on vertical progression - where old content/rewards get phased out. There's not that much to choose from other than the current top raid/CT series or just save current tomes for gear.

I agree, and it is probably the biggest flaw in FFXIV to date, and one I sorely hope they address at some point. Until the level cap rise from 75 and beyond, there were tons of new gear being added which wasn't a direct upgrade over another but had benefits unique to that item. That means some gear was better for some content, while other gear was better for others.

In FFXIV it feels like they actually went out of their way to keep equipment as boring as possible so that the next 'upgrade' would be obvious. And since it's currently the only real form of character progression in the game, locking it behind extreme content is just foolhardy.

Bring back unique equipment. Make finding new gear fun again. That will do more good for FFXIV than any amount of hardcore content would ever do.

[Yukiko]

I agree, and it is probably the biggest flaw in FFXIV to date, and one I sorely hope they address at some point. Until the level cap rise from 75 and beyond, there were tons of new gear being added which wasn't a direct upgrade over another but had benefits unique to that item. That means some gear was better for some content, while other gear was better for others.

In FFXIV it feels like they actually went out of their way to keep equipment as boring as possible so that the next 'upgrade' would be obvious. And since it's currently the only real form of character progression in the game, locking it behind extreme content is just foolhardy.

Bring back unique equipment. Make finding new gear fun again. That will do more good for FFXIV than any amount of hardcore content would ever do.

Thats one of the reasons most other games are using elemental wheel...

[raelgun]

Thats one of the reasons most other games are using elemental wheel...

Other then FF11, name an mmo that has raids that uses this. Back up your claims otherwise stop spreading false information.