Variance in player skill is hurting FFXIV's itemization design.

[RobbieH]

Bottom line: its a subscription game. They have to implement stuff and gate/timesink it if they want to coerce continued pay from players. That's your relic in a nutshell.

On the other hand i see more and more people offline on my friends list.

They said that the new influx of new players is what keeps the game alive, i call that BS.

I bought an FC with medium house (ended up selling it because i was considering quit and if i sold the FC would have some gil if i came back), most of it's members were sprouts, as time passed i saw their days of not login increase, til i moved them to the AFK.

SE still believes that new players is better than MAINTAINING what already exists, until they see how wrong they are they're going to keep losing people.

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25dex more would roughly equal to 2.5 weapon damage. (IIRC WDamage to mainstat ratio was 1:10). So if the 235 offers >3WDamage more (I don't know just guessing as I do not play melee) it would be better, despite having suboptimal secondary stats. Not that you'll ever notice that difference in real gameplay scenarios. Deltas this tiny are purely academic in nature.

- http://xivdb.com/item/14313/Hellfire-Claws
- http://xivdb.com/item/15304/Horde-Knuckles

Same weapon damage, horde gives one more magic damage lol.

[Granyala]

They said that the new influx of new players is what keeps the game alive, i call that BS.

Heavy churn is quite normal in MMOs.
WoW had the same thing happen. People eventually quit and it's when the new folks start falling away that sub count declines.

Same weapon damage, horde gives one more magic damage lol.

Then the 235s are indeed suboptimal to a 230.

I do think 5 item levels is simply to little an improvement in order to feel a difference, so secondary stats win out.