Add a unique stat to the new Relics, so they are worth obtaining. Enough is enough.

[Alberel]

You have too much faith in a community that will take the easy route out if the opportunity is given to them. If FFXI/FFXIV 1.0 are any indication, a horizontal system with added traits just makes an unbalanced mess the developers are not willing to handle to put extra time into make it work. Not to mention, these traits have to be made and balanced out that it does not break the job....each patch. That is including when job adjustments have to be made. Its a mess to work with, and in doing so, takes longer for our patches to come out.

You have to ask yourself why the current systems in place, why a certain idea may not work. You have to look at the perspective on both a player and developer standpoint. From a developer standpoint, it looks like a pain in the ass to constantly work with said features.

The current system is in place because the devs don't want to put the work into balancing a complex and interesting stat system. It's that simple.

You are basically advocating removing anything that some people might use to exclude other players. Newsflash: players are ALREADY excluded from raids and such. Should we remove raids completely because some players exclude certain jobs? Oh that's a point, why did we ever add AST when raid groups still prefer taking WHM and SCH? Guess AST better be deleted pronto.

Do you realise how silly your logic sounds?

When you have a choice between a system that is easy to balance but incredibly boring, or a system that is harder to balance but much more fun, which would you prefer? Bear in mind the entire point of these games is ultimately fun... there doesn't seem much point in the risk-free boring option does there?