More interesting loot please! Here are some ideas!

[StouterTaru]

And do you remember how people would devise macros for switching gear mid-battle, going so far as to switch gear between attacks?

I would use 3 macros to cast a nuke as a BLM in FFXI, a few of the slots I changed in the first macro and again later to get my HP down for the ring latent effect.

We don't need to go to that extreme, but you already have many people that have alternate gear sets for the same job, to meet accuracy/HP needs at higher content or do more damage at easier content.

I would like at least a couple pieces of gear that don't get replaced every other major patch.

[Callinon]

We don't need to go to that extreme, but you already have many people that have alternate gear sets for the same job, to meet accuracy/HP needs at higher content or do more damage at easier content.

Her point is moot anyway since FFXIV doesn't include in-battle gear swapping.

FFXI went overboard on this kind of gear, most likely due to the level cap not increasing for .. what? 7 years? Something like that?

FFXIV need not have this problem. If the special effects were limited to a particular gear slot, maybe job-specific rings, or your job-specific body and leg pieces or something like that, it'd be fine. The effects would have to not be outrageous, but ok that's fine. If an effect ends up being too good, you nerf it back into line. It's very simple.

The assumption that X gear will be required to perform Y piece of content pre-supposes that overpowered gear will stay overpowered.

Some random guy stating outrageous gear requirements to do a particular piece of content will NEVER go away. Ever. This guy exists whether gear is interesting or not, so let's make gear interesting.

[Iromi]

Her point is moot anyway since FFXIV doesn't include in-battle gear swapping.

FFXI went overboard on this kind of gear, most likely due to the level cap not increasing for .. what? 7 years? Something like that?

FFXIV need not have this problem. If the special effects were limited to a particular gear slot, maybe job-specific rings, or your job-specific body and leg pieces or something like that, it'd be fine. The effects would have to not be outrageous, but ok that's fine. If an effect ends up being too good, you nerf it back into line. It's very simple.

The assumption that X gear will be required to perform Y piece of content pre-supposes that overpowered gear will stay overpowered.

Some random guy stating outrageous gear requirements to do a particular piece of content will NEVER go away. Ever. This guy exists whether gear is interesting or not, so let's make gear interesting.

Exactly. This game does not have gear swapping so none of that is relevant in the least. The devs already said this game won't have gear swapping.