Why in the world do we not have a gear preview window?

[rocheetbombe]

i would love to see gear linking as well as being able to mouse over for difference of stats not just armor.

of course this'll never happen thanks to the ps3 limitations.

[myahele]

Yeah, it'll be nice to have a preview of the gear itself. Was about to buy the coliseum shawl for my whm, but decidednto google how it looked....thank goodness I did or else I'll have a nea4 half naked whm running around in Coerthas!

[Roris]

Because they kept advertising and making a big deal about how ARR would follow and implement "global standards" yet it's still missing a lot of them, also rushed game.

[alexhatesmil]

also rushed game.

They rebuilt the game in less than three years. Of course it was rushed.

[Zfz]

Item link, wardrobe preview and a better item stats comparison are all things heavily requested by beta testers very early on in beta. And were all promised to be implemented after launch in patches. So the problem isn't that they launched without it, it's that they don't have enough development resources to complete the game in time.

While a lot of people are focusing on PvP and housing and all the new "big" features, I'm more interested in exactly how many of these essential convenience features will be implemented.

At the rate things are revealed, though, I wouldn't be surprised if things like item linking only arrive mid-2014. Item compare should arrive along with the PS4 UI, though.

At least item sorting is coming in 2.1.

[AvonRekaes]

I thought this thread was about something else that I thought was obvious... maybe I just don't know how to work the ui...


But why can't I mouse over a piece of equipment from my armory chest and see the item details for both it AND my currently equipped item of the same slot? Sure you get the green and red (+/- X) indications for the basic stats like weapon damage, armor, magic defense.... but it becomes increasingly annoying when trying to compare the secondary stats, like bonuses to Str, Vitality, Determination, etc. etc. etc. I end up having to go back and forth and shortly memorize what the stats are in order to compare them.


So.... am I just derping really hard and the game already has this feature, or is it really not there?

[myahele]

But why can't I mouse over a piece of equipment from my armory chest and see the item details for both it AND my currently equipped item of the same slot? Sure you get the green and red (+/- X) indications for the basic stats like weapon damage, armor, magic defense.... but it becomes increasingly annoying when trying to compare the secondary stats, like bonuses to Str, Vitality, Determination, etc. etc. etc. I end up having to go back and forth and shortly memorize what the stats are in order to compare them.


So.... am I just derping really hard and the game already has this feature, or is it really not there?

I know what you mean, there have been many times that I bought an item only to find out that its missing a stat that I want :-(

What I do now is go to lodestone on my phone or tab and check on my characters gear and make comparisons that way. Mak3s things easier

[Xatsh]

Hoe does such a basic MMORPG feature get left out?

The same way they develop alliance content and forget/neglect to add an alliance feature?

[Shioban]

They already said they're adding this in a future patch.

It just something that's "not necessary" for the time being.

Edit; what they said basicly

Item link, wardrobe preview and a better item stats comparison are all things heavily requested by beta testers very early on in beta. And were all promised to be implemented after launch in patches. So the problem isn't that they launched without it, it's that they don't have enough development resources to complete the game in time.

While a lot of people are focusing on PvP and housing and all the new "big" features, I'm more interested in exactly how many of these essential convenience features will be implemented.

At the rate things are revealed, though, I wouldn't be surprised if things like item linking only arrive mid-2014. Item compare should arrive along with the PS4 UI, though.

At least item sorting is coming in 2.1.

[Zfz]

Which is exactly what I said in my post.

Well not exactly. I don't think they ever said these functions were "not necessary". IIRC:

• Item linking: definitely want to implement, but have other higher priority tasks
• Item compare: still looking for a way to make comparison easier; however after launch, there was a dev response that just ran short of claiming that "item sorting will make comparisons easier". Yeah right. I don't think the devs really know what we want here. 6 months of communication on this and they still are replying apples when we ask for oranges.
• Wardrobe preview: also something planned but not high priority

There were only very few things they described as "not necessary" I think. Their responses mostly fall into the following types:

• Definitely want to implement, in future patch
• Definitely want to do something about it, but still working on the exact implementation that would achieve the same effect
• On task list already, but there are higher priority items so no due date on it
• Would like to implement, will keep an eye out for more discussions on this
• No plan to implement