Quote Originally Posted by Xatsh View Post
Perfect balance only matters in PvP.

XI's gear system currently blows XIV's out of the water with ease.

Everything is pure linear. I can tell you the stats on the ILvl 600 Pld Body at this moment because it is as complex as draging down on an excell spread sheet.

Easy to Balance =/= Good Game Design. It =s bland game design.
You have to remember though that XI had in-combat gear swaps and differing stat modifiers for weapon skills, which gave them a lot more freedom with gear stats. It was a stupid system but it's why they could do it.

Also, XI was unbalanced as hell so they could do whatever they wanted and get away with it.

Don't get me wrong I would like to see more interesting stats on gear, but they would have to be done right.