More Horizontal Progression please

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Since you can't swap gear in combat, it wouldn't be that much of an issue. Gear was shared between jobs more like the <50 gear, so the 1-3 pieces per slot you have for your whm would mostly be wearable and useful to all caster classes.

Yeah, I think implementing a more horizontal gear system would reduce gear bloat, not increase it. With gear remaining viable for a longer period of time, there's less of a rush to replace it. The way it is now, with new gear sets being introduced (with an accompanying new tomestone to farm) as often as they are leads to bloating far more than a more horizontal system would.

I remember having pieces of gear in XIV that lasted me for 20+ levels, and were still useful, because the % increase they gave was always beneficial - not to mention, being useful across multiple jobs. I kept fewer sets of gear, overall in XI.

Actually, on a previous episode of Limit Break Radio, they were talking about how XI had gear that people would drool for, and would set a goal to acquire... and then that piece would be used for a good while once they'd acquired it. It made the time and effort to acquire it worthwhile, because you knew it wasn't going to be replaced by something better in a few weeks or whatever.

Gear is so fleeting, and so quickly replaced in XIV that getting something new is kinda "meh". I think that was a great point they made on LBR, and it's something I could relate to perfectly, because I noticed the same difference between the games.

The rate at which gear is replaced in this game is kinda ridiculous, in my opinion. You barely have time to enjoy the fruits of your efforts before, oh look... there's a new set to go after, and suddenly that gear you just spent all that time going after is old news.