Quote Originally Posted by Mycow8me View Post
I think alot of the problems in this game stems from ilvlgear and formulas/calculations for stats. Just my 2cents. Obviously that can't be fixed without major reworkings though.

I remember a time when gear augmented your abilities and improved your performance while your character level determined what you were capable of... Now its both determines what your capable of.
Its not that ilvl gear is the problem as much as the developers who are not balancing it right. The system is fine, they just don't know how to balance it correctly. Then again, horizontal gear was not exactly balanced either. Look to FFXI and FFXIV 1.0 for proof of that. People think going in the other direction is some magic fairy land where its always balanced and unique stats are always balanced also. You are actually asking for a bigger mess. If the developers are having a hard enough time balancing a vertical based system (which is hard to screw up), what makes you think they would be able to balance a horizontal system?