Quote Originally Posted by _C-a-e-r-i-t-h_ View Post
I hope that the gear upgrade path in XIV is reminiscent of XI's at least in balance. Nothing's stupider than all your endgame gear being made obsolete by the common drops of the newest expansion.
As someone who has done the gear grind twice, I don't see what the problem is. The sidegrades we saw while the cap was stuck at 75 for all those years didn't do much.

That being said, the problem with gear that has drawbacks is that it could possibly have very limited use. Rune chopper made no sense seeing how the game was designed, specially since Refresh was such a rare commodity before they started giving out refresh gear like candy post-TAU.

It'd be a different story if we were talking about pieces of gear with certain bonuses that were in effect in conjunction with other buffs/debuffs.