Don’t want to edit previous post for a separate point but god yes the gear system is so boring they may as well just remove all equipment stats entirely and just leave item level as the one and only player stat in the game.

Like I’m not saying we should have FFXI levels of horizontal progression because it can definitely go too far lol. But at least make the experience more exciting than literally just slapping on whichever equipment is higher item level than what you have and that’s it.

Though that also brings me on to substats where everything not called ‘Critical/Direct Hit Rate’ doesn’t exist lol. Piety? Tenacity? Determination? What’s the point of flooding us with all these pointless stats that we all have to actively avoid putting on our gear because they’re worth so little. And then there’s the speed stats. I honestly forget they exist most of the time