Cash or gear?

[Phanco]

So I have been wondering, should I sell all my gear and keep cash for 2.0 or keep my current gear.

With the change in stats I am worried that better gear will be available or that the yea I have spent lots of money on will be less attractive than other gear once 2.0 hits. For these reasons I have been debating jut liquidating my gear into cash. I am talking about my triple melds and expensive jewelry stuff.

Have y'all thought about this and if so what do you think?

[Kluya15]

Well you'll always have your AF gear to fall back on as a safety net, but I'm sure your melded gear now will still be worth hanging on to when 2.0 arrives. There are, for lack of a better word, "safer" ways to rack up gil. Go farm some raptor skins, or mine electrum ore, or just spam leves for easy cash. You can even offer yourself as a mercenary for people who are worried about seeing content before the meteor lands

[Molly_Millions]

With triple melds, it's likely your gear will still be very good. I'd keep it. I'm guessing the adjustments will be relatively minor.

[Wolfie]

I'm not going to sweat it. Whatever happens to my gear, happens.

[Gidonoidon_Sur]

Was pondering same thing OP. Thinking I am going to stick with my gear for now and hope SE doesn't destroy the usefulness of double-melded gear. I think if they did, a lot of people who have worked hard and spent time/gil on double-meld plus gear will be really upset (possibly leave).

So I would hang on to it.

[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.

[Molly_Millions]

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.

But we don't know how much everything will be adjusted, nor the approach they will take. It's just too damn early to do anything with your gear with so little knowledge of the change.