SE, Please do somthing about the boring gear stats.. Please just read first...

[Nalien]

I'm waiting for something like this.

Gear gets some degree of interesting stats to aim for? Check.
Those stats don't force you to wear that gear for the next ten years like in Final Fantasy XI? Check.
Additional grinding content to further enhance and specialize your Jobs, like Final Fantasy XIs Merit system? Check.

Certainly seems like a perfectly simply solution to giving gear unique stats without making certain gear vastly superior because of those bonuses... I mean of course it is, it's an idea taken directly from the best Final Fantasy game. Just do it Yoshida. It has plenty of room for additions going forward as well; Bards AF1 body could have "Enhances Ballads", AF1.5 could have "Enhances Ballads II", and the upcoming AF2 "Enhances Ballads III". Would add an extra level of thought going into encounters as well; "Do I need this set for this fight?", etc. which I'd certainly enjoy. Only issue I'd perhaps have is grinding to unlock stuff, but as long as it is streamlined and not stuck suffering at the hands of the RNGesus (like Materia, I swear 99% of my hate for SBing comes from Convert giving me trash) I don't think I'd mind too much.