new items are counter productive?

[Firon]

But what is the point of adding gear we are never going to use? And even materia we aren't going to use that takes up rng slots from materia we want?

You might not use it but i will i Happly solo on pgl and thm and gla all the time and i will make use of this Gear. Thanks SE.

[Estellios]

I'd use the new gear on my thm or cnj when soloing, the stats are quite nice. Unfortunately they aren't released yet =P

[SkeletonJelly]

Some of you guys will just eat up any shit that SE produces with a smile, It's unbelievable.

Hard to get excited about new patch gear when I cant equip it without giving up all of my War Exclusive abilities/stat bonuses/entire AF set (no thanks), and garuda weapons look disappointing to boot.

I've been loving the progress on FFXIV lately but I feel like the items in this patch are entirely lackluster. I don't even want to work towards any of the new items.

[Treach]

Some of you guys will just eat up any shit that SE produces with a smile, It's unbelievable.

Hard to get excited about new patch gear when I cant equip it without giving up all of my War Exclusive abilities/stat bonuses/entire AF set (no thanks), and garuda weapons look disappointing to boot.

I've been loving the progress on FFXIV lately but I feel like the items in this patch are entirely lackluster. I don't even want to work towards any of the new items.

How dare you! Don't be such an ffxiv terrorist!

(liked btw)

[Rokien]

What about how it doesn't make sense to have class specific gear.

[Treach]

That is the whole "never going use" part!

Why play whm when you can play CNJ without regen for soloing?
Why play pld/gla at all? (tis a joke)
THM over BLM is acceptable for soloing though.

[SkeletonJelly]

To speak specifically to "why are these new weapons class-specific?" - the development team plans to implement a variety of equipment that meets and fulfills all types of needs for the adventurers of Eorzea.

This seems like a weird way to justify it to me. Meets and fulfills all types of needs for adventurers. You know, except those ones who like using their jobs. They have to be content with their AF or wait for different gear to be added.

So by meeting the needs of all adventurers you truly mean, slowly meeting the needs of each niche of players/classes/jobs at a time?

After all, for all of you players spouting about how foolish it is to solo on jobs and how grand it is that this gear is class specific, It's not as though allowing jobs to use the gear would make you any worse at soloing?

[Biggs]

Some of you guys will just eat up any shit that SE produces with a smile, It's unbelievable.

Hard to get excited about new patch gear when I cant equip it without giving up all of my War Exclusive abilities/stat bonuses/entire AF set (no thanks), and garuda weapons look disappointing to boot.

I've been loving the progress on FFXIV lately but I feel like the items in this patch are entirely lackluster. I don't even want to work towards any of the new items.

Dear SE,

Please 86 any form of Variety you wish to put in the game.

Your truely,

Butthurt Tarutar


Seriously though, how else do you expect them to differenciate between job and class if not by doing things like this. THe way you speak, I should level a class to 30, get a job, and put on my AF gear and never take it off again. Why even bother having classes then, right? Why not just throw classes and jobs together into one hodgepodge of a mess where the line is so blurred you can't tell where one ends and the other begins? Not only could we then have the devs waste time AND rescources, but then it would be even easier for them to not piss off people that have no desire for variety. I understand that it seems like theres no point to them doing this right now, but I am assuming they have a long term plan for the actions they are taking now, and that this sort of equipment is just a small part of that larger plan. Just an assumption though, you could be right, this could have been some nut jobs last minute idea that slipped under the radar and made its way into the game with no real intention behind it. Oh wait!, they already said that it takes them 6 months to design and put new equipment into the game. Pretty sure they know where they are going with this even though you may not. Nothing to do but wait and see I guess.

[SkeletonJelly]

The way that you are talking about it, you make it sound like this new gear is so phenomenal that we will be sweating bullets trying to decide if we want to bring the WAR or the MRD to our next run. But it isn't, even if jobs could use it, many of the new pieces are comparable to already existing AF, so you really aren't adding any more variety because the gear just isnt THAT amazing that everyone is going to want to start rolling classes instead of jobs in situations where they wouldnt have anyways.

Also, I could be wrong but I thought the point of having classes and jobs was so that eventually each class could have multiple jobs to choose from? So yeah, It might seem like jobs are super superior right now but that's generally because they usually are, and this gear is likely not going to change that.

[Zahak]

I wish they would just kill classes..... <_< in my dreams~