Regarding Esoterics.

[Felis]

So, I've been trying to decide what I should do with these tombstones. My main, Warrior, has the weapon, body, and pants pieces, and lately I've been really enjoying my MCH and NIN. My question is, should I continue to gear up my Warrior, despite not using it for roulettes and the like, or should I at least buy the eso weapon for my two dps jobs?

I love tanking, but I also love pew pew pewing. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Do you want to do Alex S? if yes, with what job?
for every else content law gear is all what you need.

[Obysuca]

Do you want to do Alex S? if yes, with what job?
for every else content law gear is all what you need.

Thing is, while that's true, would you rather do a bismarck/ravana ex / expert/alex with people in i180 or i200? 4 people in i180 makes an expert run take about 35 mins. 4 people in i200 makes it take 15-20. If more than half the pt don't know their rotation/play how they want, then you can wipe horribly if everyone is in law gear in alex/ex primals, while if more than half are in i200, it can make up for it. "X gear is all you need" should never be an option imo. Just because it can be cleared in law gear, doesn't mean that should be all you need.

XIV allows us to play multiple jobs, but forces us to pick a main, which defeats the purpose of multiple jobs. You can't really go "I think I might come X today, instead of my main." unless its faceroll content, because then you'd be about 10-20 ilvl lower, gimping yourself and hurting the overall party performance. Theres no reason why we shouldn't be able to gear up as many jobs as we want in the current top gear. No, people aren't going to up and unsub because of that, plenty of mmos have had uncapped stuff and people continued to play it for years. People are already unsubbing because we can't gear up more than 1 job, not to mention lack of variety. They can keep the cap, but it should have been per job (and only able to spend the tomes earned on that job, for that job), so we can gear multiple jobs.

[Averax]

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I say we go back to having sets that aren't particular to a singular job for our higher end stuff. Like Ironworks gear at the end of ARR.

The AF2 could have gone a similar route as the relic weapons. We obtain a simple base set via quest, then upgrade it via lengthy quest chain.