Quote Originally Posted by Velhart View Post
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?
I believe there is a spectrum from extremely unbalanced to everything is identical.

Personally, I'd rather have an interesting extremely unbalanced game than one where we all are the same with only 1 button to press. I know those are both the extremes, and I doubt we'd get either. The point still stands that I'd rather some imbalance if it meant we had more interesting stats to play with.