Needs Better Gear Comparison

[Boyzby]

I find it annoying that, when I look at a piece of gear, it only shows the difference of stats with defense or attack. That's not entirely helpful, especially when I have to keep going back and forth, looking at number of materia slots or the stat bonuses.

It would be nice that, when I mouse over the gear, that it would include a window that shows what I have equipped right beside it. A simple and easy way to compare the items, which I do all the time and have to finagle around way too much.

I really hope this gets implemented soon.

[DAMNLAMA]

I totally agree that this would be nice. Right now I usually go to XIVDB.com and look up the items for easier comparison.

[sanosuke001]

I would even go so far as request a window that displays +/- values instead of currently equipped. ie.

New shiny  |  Stat changes | Old Gear
----------------------------------------
25 DPS     |  +2 DPS       |  23 DPS
+12 int    |  -5 int       |  +17 int
+10 vit    |  +2 vit       |  +8 vit
+10 det    |  +0 det       |  +10 det
+15 crit   |  +15 crit     |  +0 crit
+0 acc     |  -10 acc      |  +10 acc

etc

[Niwashi]

I would even go so far as request a window that displays +/- values instead of currently equipped.

That would be a better match to what we (partially) have now. Just like it already shows +/- numbers for the top-line information (damage for weapons, defense for armor), extend that to the stat modifiers and materia sections of the tooltip.

The only obvious complication in that is that it can add a few extra lines to the description. For instance, in your example above, the "New shiny" which doesn't have any Accuracy modifier would need to be able to show "+0 Accuracy (-10)" during the comparison, even though it normally doesn't show an Accuracy line at all. Since the basic tooltip template is clearly expandable to accommodate a wide variety of items already, it's unlikely that expanding it a little further would be an insurmountable problem.

If it turns out that that's more complicated than it looks, though, simply showing us both tooltips side-by-side would be a lot better than what we have now.

[Bixby]

Hello,

I have yet another helping of UI comments from lead Hiroshi Minagawa to share with you all.

• Equipment comparison
  
  

  It's really hard to compare the stats of equipment I'm wearing and other equipment. Can you please make it so we can see the stats of both?

  Yes, we will be adding this feature.
  We'd like to implement this in patch 2.1, but there is a possibility that it will be pushed to patch 2.2.
  
  With the item sort feature that will be implemented in patch 2.1, it will be much easier than now to compare the item details, so there is a possibility that we prioritize other features first.

Guess it got pushed back even more.

[sanosuke001]

That would be a better match to what we (partially) have now. Just like it already shows +/- numbers for the top-line information (damage for weapons, defense for armor), extend that to the stat modifiers and materia sections of the tooltip.

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If it turns out that that's more complicated than it looks, though, simply showing us both tooltips side-by-side would be a lot better than what we have now.

Yes, having both tooltips adjacent would be better than we have now but I proposed a second tooltip adjacent to the first with all the changes; not in-line in the original. Though, in-line would work, too, but it might be more trouble to do so as you pointed out.

[ariaandkia]

Personally, I don't care how they do it. It is annoying to be mid-dungeon and have to look back and forth over and over again to decide which gear I want to use. Having the option to see SOME form of comparison would make things so much simpler.

[RaphaelDDL]

Guess it got pushed back even more.

Funny that this comparison screen is just adding another one on the side of the first.. Don't even need to put + or - on the attributes.
Any mmo has this

[Camate]

Hello, everyone.

The implementation of an improved gear comparison feature has been pushed back to patch 2.3. Currently there are no details about this feature that we can share as of yet, but once the time draws closer we (or perhaps Minagawa!) will be sure to make a follow-up post. Apologies for the delay.

[Gesser]

Bummer... but thanks for the heads up. I hope this means it'll ship with a Gear Previewer too. These are expected baseline features in MMO's today, and with the Dye Previewer, I can imagine you guys could piece together the tech really quickly.