Make FFXIV more like FFXI and less like WoW!

[Istaru]

You wanted something to show you did high levels of combat. There you are special glamour to show that off.

What do u want them to do? throw you a parade.

A parade of A4S mounts??? Deal!

Being serious, how about Alexander Midas gear not being garbage once 3.4 hits? I think that is part of the problem that people have with itemization in this game. Once you hit a point in the patch cycle, usually around the midpoint of the catchup patch. Doing the raid for gear kinda goes out the window. The reason for doing it at that point goes back to glamour, titles, mounts and minions and possibly bragging rights. Reason being that once the new even patch comes out, it invalidates that gear as being potentially BiS and the new gear makes the old raid easier to clear.

I like the glamour, titles, mounts and minions part of the game.

I don't know what makes itemization better than it is now. I really don't. The horizontal system in XI worked due to gearswapping. A lot of gear was desirable for a long time only because of the ability to use it situationally. That is not going to happen here, and it's ok that it won't.