Remove the 2nd ring slot and roll the stats into Waist/Belt.

[Destati]

If anything was to be removed I'd say the belt. It doesn't even show up on your character.

Though the way rings work kind of irks me, that you need two rings but sets of gear come with one unique ring. I just don't get why they have unique rings.

This. They should remove the "Unique" tag from rings (I know they did that with the lvl50 Hero belts in ARR so it's not impossible), especially since 9 times out of 10 you'll be stuck with a ring that brings your average ilvl down by one (example; you're stuck with ilvl399 with a full augmented Scaevan set until you get a Voeburtite ring from the lvl73 dungeon) with really drives me up the wall.

As for belts, while I wish they did show up on your character because there are a bunch of them that have really cool looking icons, I'd imagine if they started doing this it would clip horrendously with the other gear given how they're often designed. I'd rather them dedicate that slot for something like a "Secondary Glamour Slot", so you could wear hats with glasses, claws/nails with (fingerless) gloves, etc.

[Bonbori]

Actually I kinda wish belts would go away too. They don't display on characters so it feels to me like the only reason that slot still exists is for 1.0 legacy reasons.

If I had the power to rework gear slots, I would remove the belt and second ring, distribute their stats amongst the other accessories, add a bit of extra on top to compensate for the lost materia slots, and increase the tomestone/crafting costs of accessories accordingly.

...

...

...but if I had the power AND infinite budget, I would instead rework belts into a miscellaneous glamourable slot for things that don't fall under the other accessory categories, such as glasses wearable with hats, tail/back decorations, perhaps some actual sashes and belts, etc.

[Iscah]

Go the other way and make belts the waist slot visible. Belts, skirts, sashes, all sorts of things that can be layered over pants instead of being stuck to either the body or legs slot.

(Never mind the clipping, just let people decide whether it looks good and glamour over it if it doesn't work.)

[NekoNova]

Remove the 2nd ring slot, and turn it into a cosmetic slot.
I want to carry my umbrella into battle

[Sub-Xero]

I don't really craft and I still think they shouldn't remove the second ring because of how it would/could affect crafters.

Are we requesting this because of inventory/armoury issues? Since we can wear a left ring and a right ring they could just have a separate armoury pool for left and right and let us choose where each ring goes. That seems like the easiest "fix" to me. That way people can still do their glamour, crafters can still do their thing, and the devs don't have to do a ton of work.

[Fhaerron]

Waist equipment slot have always been in-between accessory and armor. But now that accessories have VIT, there's very little difference between the two.

So when SE touched on maybe removing the additional ring slot at this past Live Letter,
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post5126767
I thought it would be a good opportunity to make the waist more distinguishable by giving it higher stat weight and an additional Materia slot to make up the loss of the 2nd ring.

I prefer this idea to simply replacing the ring with another type of accessory. What are your guys thoughts?

I've got the 470ilvl waist from the raid and it does come with 2 materia slots. The ilvl 440 tome waist doesn't have that.


Maybe change the second ring to like an artifact or relic or talisman or whatever, like a special piece (not visible maybe) that you would get from finishing the final job story quest and then would be further upgradable with some items that drop only in savage raid, last boss of each tier and then also have another quest you have to do with each tier.

So that with each new savage tier that item will also be upgradable to the new max ilvl cap.


And before the 'savage raiding should be removed from this game' people will come at me and hang me up maybe have the required items to upgrade that relic also be able to purchase it with the coins that drop from the alliance raid later, just like how you can get tomestones to max ilvl.




However with the pruning of job quests in Shadowbringers and with the addition of more jobs in the future I doubt they will ever do this as it will no doubt come with a lot of extra lore corporation work.

[Stanelis]

I don't see why they should remove second ring to be honest. There are always two rings at highest iLvl, so it doesn't by necessity make sense to do this.

Because there is only one armory section for rings with 2 times the amount of gear compared to other slots, leading to space issues.

[Kemiko]

I understand the concern for removing a ring but unless they double the armory chest size of rings to compensate for the need to fill two slots instead of one like every other equipment, one should go. On top of that, the one-unique-ring for gearsets was always awkward.

With belts having no physical asset since 2013, their constant implementation feels like a waste of development time. They could roll the stats it provides into other gear. Or they could just give them assets again.

[Gula]

Considering EB, I always glamour one hand for my Eternity Ring. My WoL is married and proud. Belts dont show, so they can go.

[hynaku]

Get rid of the belt slot and add a back slot for capes and other items like them for glamour.