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[azura84]

I know presenting your case honestly and accurately is hard, but you could try more.

- People wanting horizontal progression in XIV (aka people who want a XI-2) are a minority. Most people just want vertical with a couple of months added to its longevity
- Unless the new secondary stats contribute equally to output more DPS, the best one will be selected and all other ones will be ignored. Diversity doesn't matter, when it's the difference between a clear or enrage
- What people comparing XIV with XI usually and conveniently forget to mention, is that you needed to farm and carry around 3-4 different sets of gear, suitable for different battles, and change it around using macros. Pretty sure that's what the playerbase wants: gear micromanagement /s
- Putting all this in effect would require an complete overhaul of the battle system, bringing with it several days/weeks of maintenance that won't be refunded, because they weren't caused by any SE problem and are covered by the ToS. So say hi to more cries of "Why so much maintenance/I want a refund"

then you missed the argument entirely from top to bottom, I very explicitly say I just want them to slow the progression, not end it. I never once say i want them to make this XI and the only reason i mentioned horizontal progression was to demonstrate the difference between linear and horizontal. My entire argument is they need to make the gear last longer in general, either by giving the pieces a value in quests by requiring previous gen pieces to level up new gen pieces or making them good enough to last some time longer than they do. you're wrong if you think "most people just want vertical", and if they do they clearly dont want it THIS steep.