Cash or gear?

[Rau]

In regards to battle-related stats, it is currently possible to receive large boosts from stats on equipment, while character stats do not have as much of an effect. For example, equipping items with multiple materia melded to it will allow players to become quite powerful. In A Realm Reborn, we are planning to make adjustments so that the ratio of influence from character stats and from gear stats is 1:1. With this, having 5 materia melded onto a single item won’t elicit as large of a difference like it does currently.

Similarly in the current version, even when players add large amounts of INT and STR via equipment with multiple materia and such, it may feel like damage is not increasing and this is due to a damage range that has been set. Fundamentally, battle related stats fluctuate based on the level difference between enemies, and this is also why we are not planning to display evasion rates and other things.

This quote heavily implies that gear, for example gloves with 50+ STR(Triple/Quad/etc), won't be as good as they are now. Instead, gear with different types of Materia (STR+20, ATK+36, DEX+20 on glovs) will perform better.

But still speculation I guess. It might be worth it to cash out now, and just stock up on gil seeing as how the economy will go crazy for a few months after 2.0.