Suggestion for armor shoppers - SE please read.

[Max_Damade]

Here's a simple suggestion that I believe everyone can enjoy.

When we go shopping for new armor SE has put a function in place that shows if the new piece of gear has higher defense and magic defense than the piece you currently have equipped in that slot. If the new, potential purchase has higher stats we see a +1 in green. If the stats are lower we see a -1 in red.

I would love to see this same system implemented for other other stats such as str, vit, int, dex...

Anyone else think this would help?

[Nutz]

They've stated in the past that they like the suggestion and want to make it happen, but currently they feel it would make the item window terribly cluttered (I think that was their reasoning). This is because you could be comparing two items for the same slot that have virtually no stats in common, so it would have to generate a block of text saying + this, - that for up to every stat in the game. Personally I still think that would be acceptable as I'd usually be using it to compare similar items. The most it would ever need to produce would be 7 rows of stats (14 stats in total) if the comparison somehow included every normal stat and each piece had a different elemental resist as well. This doesn't account for materia which is listed in a separate spot in the window and based on it's current implementation I'm guessing wouldn't be condensed into the item's regular stats.

For me, I think a useful and equitable trade would be to just display a window of your currently equipped piece of gear for that slot as well as the one you're looking at so you can compare the two quickly instead of going back and forth.

[Max_Damade]

You're right!
That would be even better!

[Kimiko]

Easy solution. We have too ltips for our skills.. we already have a pop up when we hover over the armour piece's icon.. just add another pop up next to the existing one that shows your currently equipped piece for the same slot.. easy to compare and no need to generate a load of + and -'s.

[dspguy]

The way this game is, 99% of the time, higher iLvl means higher stats. As long as you are replacing tank gear with tank gear, heal gear with heal gear, etc, the stat difference comparison is irrelevant.