Quote Originally Posted by Felis View Post
The special stats were only on the AF gears. Every else gear (also DL gear as the best gear in 1.23) had only normal stats. For weapons you used the one with the highest dps (that was garuda weapon), because the weapon dps determined the stat cap of you character.
Garuda weapon > Skirmish weapon > Moogle weapon > Ifrit weapon
You're right on the special stats. But that was the direction they were taking. We have nothing like that in ARR.
Also, multimelded gear could be stronger than DL.