Poll: Gear progression, horizontal or vertical?

[Craiger]

I would like there to be more options for gear to choose from... And that the stats would be more interesting.

That being said, full on horizontal progression have some big problems too...

If it's truly horizontal, people would ultimately start to question: "What's the point of this? I don't get anything out of this".... It's one thing having lots of different options for you to get, but having the same level of gear throughout the game, would kill it in the long run IMO.

How would endgame raids work?(honest question) If everyone is wearing the same level of gear, then what happens to the raids when they come out in a patch? Is it going to be too easy for hardcore players, too hard for normal players, or would they have echo in much earlier and in more increments? Right now, hardcore players beat it with mostly gear from previous patch, and maybe with crafted gear if available... Then more and more groups are able to beat it as they gear up with gear from the "easier" turns and from Tomestones. Could work with echo, but god that sounds sad...

Horizontal sounds kinda good on paper, but trust me, it would make FFXIV history...

EDIT: Also, one thing I don't understand with horizontal progression... How would they even keep making new and interesting gear that people would even want? Maybe I'm missing something, but if everything have the same level, and only different stats and whatnot, why would you even want to change your gear once you get a combination that is better than everything else? And trust me, there would be gear like that.