Quote Originally Posted by Lemuria View Post
Where's my 'enhances cure potency' or 'boosts Graniteskin'? Where's my 'increases enmity' and my 'enhances aetherflow'? The gear in FFXI was amazingly diverse, and there's no reason they couldn't do the same here either.
Yes, there is a very good reason why such gear won't work, and that's because those stats are worthless. This is one of the weakness of the the current design of the classes; we all have the same skills, and we have to play a specific role. If a piece of gear had the "enhances aetherflow" on it, people would crunch the numbers to determine if that's BiS for either SCH or SMN, and if so, everyone would go for it.

The only jobs that need 2 sets of gear are tanks, because when you're OT, you're essentially another damage class. People need to realize that the vast majority of players of an MMO simply go with what's the best setup for your class.

FFXI had a similar limitation (in that every job had the same skills), but the lack of enforcing roles meant it was possible for different classes to serve different roles, so such gear would be useful.