The gearing\stat system is good, we need to stop asking to make it more complicated

[Renathras]

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Greetings, impersonator.

While I agree FFXIV's gear system has nice things about it, it's not at all perfect. It's pretty boring (which isn't terrible, but isn't great), the materia "crit meta" is awful and crowds out any actual choices like most speed builds, etc. Savage exclusive gear with no non-Savage equivalent is annoying. It's not at all fast, especially if you're trying to gear more than one role. For a casual player (aside: While we've had a detour here with the Hilde weapons, this isn't NORMALLY the case) does not have a way to get a high end weapon fast at all. It takes 7 weeks of running the latest normal 4th boss before you're even allowed to get it, or running Extremes, which are midcore or even (of late) hardcore content what with all the body checks, and they're lower ilevel anyway. Relic weapons are an option, but often don't start until an expansion is half-over, have an ilevel penalty vs tome/Savage weapons until the last patch of the expansion (when it effectively no longer matters to casual players who aren't using them for Ultimates), and aren't quick unless you nolife them (and I say this as someone who DOES nolife at least my first one of each expansion).

My rule is always options.

There should be a grindy option, there should be a difficult content option, and there should be a catch-all option for anyone else. Right now, we lack the latter, or its gated heavily behind tome limits. Savage is really the only somewhat reliable way to gear quickly at all, and the lockout process makes it very multi-Job/role unfriendly. That is, you'd be better having a separate character to run a different role because it wouldn't be limited by the lockouts. So it's not even great to Savage raiders even.

And the problem with the grindy options - love Eureka and Bozja gear - is that that gear, too, until they very last stage (maybe?) has an ilevel penalty as well. It's only "best" when specifically in those zones, when, imo, it should be comparable to raid gear. You're trading effort for time, so the end result should be similar.

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No, gearing in FFXIV is not the best thing right now, and it is not perfect, and it should be more complicated.

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EDIT:

Interesting.

Both my post and someone else's post asking someone to put on the record that they aren't me were deleted.

It's almost like someone able to delete posts wants people to think that someone else seemingly impersonating me is me and doesn't want people to see the posts where I've said it isn't. Every post I've said it isn't me, to date, has been deleted.

I have no idea who's deleting them, and I'm not naming any names in this post nor violating any forum rules. I'm just going on the record, so no one in the future can say I never did, that it isn't me, it's someone else.