DEVs Stop adding worthless pointless gear to dungeon chests.

[Murugan]

Gear swaps are not the way to go. IMO what needs to happen is more gear should be meldable. Best in slot gear is fine because you SHOULD have to choose the best piece of gear for your playstyle prior to engaging in battle, not just the best piece of gear for a particular move. The end result of gear swapping is that regardless of playstyle, if you don't have x piece of gear for y action, you are not as good as the player who does. Ultimately it promotes gear elitism. No thanks!

Right... explain how it promotes gear elitism more than advocating that rare/untradeable gear be meldable (forbidden meldable???). Your way is soooooo much more of a timesink talking about obtaining multiple darklights as some have with multiple sentry items and attempting to meld them until you get a triple + meld.

That is a type of unrealistic elitist standard that only a few people will obtain, and I don't imagine them having much fun doing it. Whereas gear swapping simply advocates that everyone regardless of when they play FFXIV has a reason to want to experience all endgame content available either as much, or at least partially as much as they would have had they been playing when it was first released.

That last part needs to happen, regardless of how they pull it off. Endgame itemization should be either horizontal, or tiered but never trivialized out of usefulness enough that people no longer have a reason to do the content. It is extremely wasteful, and places severe limits on the amount and diversity of endgame FFXIV could ever have available at any given time.