Removal of Slot-Cost Accessory limitation

[Winterclaw]

What I want to know is why did SE give us so many slot options, but then make most of the unusable by having the slot costs as they are? If they only wanted us to have 3 items equipped it should have been two rings and a necklace, not all this extra junk.

[Lamhirh]

I like the slot cost for accesorries.
why? so i can use the ones i like esthetically, you see i for example use only one earring, cos i like the look, and i can do it without LOOSING anything. they give us lots of slots so we candecide which accesorries we want, not everyone wants fo be wearing more gold chains than Mr. T.

[BelgianRofl]

Honestly while it's not that big of an issue, it's still an issue. There's no reason for such a system to exist, they should have just balanced out the accessory stats from the start.

^This.....

[Lamhirh]

Dear lord i just found i actually seriously replied in BelgianRoffl thread. I am very much ashamed.

[Nuru]

I say remove the slot limitations, High Rank Accessories will take up too many, resulting in low level accessories being used.

Though, I think most of this is due to Optimal Rank. If you are higher than Optimal, do the stats still act normal? or is it as if you are too far form the optimal that they do nothing?

not everyone wants fo be wearing more gold chains than Mr. T.

I bet belgianrofl would. >.>

[Dreamer]

The problem is that the system is incredibly vague and most people don't know how to look for the actual effects of the gear. What's listed on the card for the gear is not what you get and that honestly doesn't make any sense to me. Rank requirements are fine and people who use the current system properly should have absolutely no problems with them as you already impose the requirement upon yourself.

While I'm fully in agreement with the above, the problem you're describing isn't really with the rank requirements on the gear, but instead it's a failure of the item stat descriptions. When we look at a piece of gear, it SHOULD show us what effect we'll see at our current rank (perhaps show the current rank stats in place of what we see now, and show the optimal rank stats in parenthesis).

That's the problem though, it's only "mildly" more strategic. It doesn't add much value to the system as it is. If they just balanced out the stats of accessories as a whole and let us wear whatever we want there wouldn't be any discussion about it. You still have choice and should still think about what you're equipping. The gemmed pieces of jewelry still give you options whether you can equip 2 or 6.

I'm sure you've played other RPGs/MMOs, so you know it's not the case. You generally just throw into the slot whatever has the best stat combination for your class (or in the case of FFXIV, playstyle/skill set). At least with this system, we have to think about the tradeoffs of this piece versus different possible slot combinations. It's not a huge difference, true, but it does lend a small amount of individuality to your character, something I always welcome.

[AlexiaKidd]

I like the slot cost for accesorries.
why? so i can use the ones i like esthetically, you see i for example use only one earring, cos i like the look, and i can do it without LOOSING anything. they give us lots of slots so we candecide which accesorries we want, not everyone wants fo be wearing more gold chains than Mr. T.

Then they might as well not bothered putting any stats on the accesories at all and just let us wear whatever we wanted, why not go one step further and do it for everything so we can all wear what we want to because we "like the look".

I take function over form any day thank you. If I want a certain look I do it with my town gear not my battle gear.

[BelgianRofl]

^Yes. A simple solution would be: Toggle accessory slots - just like the toggle helmet slot....

[Bayohne]

Heads up, gang.

The development team is well aware of this concern from the community and already has plans in place to change this. We're working on organizing the information so please wait a bit while we gather everything together.

[Betelgeuzah]

We're working on organizing the information so please wait a bit while we gather everything together.

Are we perhaps talking about today here or broadly this or next week?