Poll: Gear progression, horizontal or vertical?

[Nektulos-Tuor]

So you turn it from a game where all jobs are viable for all content to stacking the best job because they are no langer balanced with your idea, thus it turns into FFXI where, if you didnt have a geared FOTM job, you didn't get to clear the content?

And you wonder why people think your ideas are bad.....

It had those points, where at launch, PLD was more effective than WAR in blinding coil, so WAR was excluded. DRG was sub optimal in Final coil due to low magic resist and heavy magic damage AE, so they were excluded. They where fixed, they are perfectly viable now for all content. SMN is getting modified due it being less effective than BLM in a lot of content and thus will be as viable.

That sounds more like class issues then gear issues. It was fixed.

Maybe if you could think of the overall picture instead of just yourself, even you would start to see how dumb an idea that is.

BTW GW2 sucks :P

I didn't say it didn't. However your talking about classes, not items. Of course a better class would be prefered, however that doesn't mean it cannot do it. I am sure Warrior at the time did something better then Paladin.

However, GW2 does suck. There was really no choice, berserker gear was just the best.

I don't think that was a good designed game because it had a lot of problems. My examples come from Everquest mostly where the design worked VERY well.

However, Everquest and FFXI are different games (very different) then FFXIV. I am saying it can work very well and make it very fun. Everquest II's unique gearing system is one of the reasons it was popular for a bit. "Oh? A game where I have choice in my character's design? I don't have to be like everyone else?"

FFXI wasn't a very good game, so giving examples from that game isn't very.. convincing.