Gear progression too linear

[Ralemont]

this has nothing to do with how much time this game had to grow since the relaunch, this is a fact.anyone who belives that they will scrap this to return to a more complex system is blind

They don't have to "scrap" anything. Did FFXI "scrap" the way geared worked for the majority of levels, or did equipment simply become more specialized as the game matured? I'd expect the next iteration of AF armor to have stats specialized for jobs. Now obviously I can't see into the future, so I might turn out to be wrong. But it's inane to compare gear from year 5 of an MMO with gear from day 1.