Quote Originally Posted by Shiyo View Post

I miss actually having to use my brain when equipping gear, seeing what's the best, using theorycraft/math, asking other people in game, asking people on forums, testing the gear myself, making unique gear sets depending on the situation and my playstyle, and where I kill things and what I kill(need more accuracy or attack or str), actual fun stats on gear like double attack, triple attack, life leech, haste etc etc. I miss completely game changing stats that I could gear around and completely change my classes playstyle. This game has the worst gearing and stats of any video game I've ever played in my entire LIFE.

When all you have to do is see the ILVL next to a piece of gear to determine if it's better than another 99.99% of the time, it means you messed up gearing in your game and made it beyond boring and generic.
How many FFXI pieces of gear had those unique stats at game release?