Stop Raising Item Level and build foundation with Horizontal Progression first

[Kuwagami]

How won't this fit in with FF14?

You may benefit from this reading, especially #8.


On topic, While I'd love to see horizontal progression, it would not fit with FFXIV ARR, not until extension (and with a huge work on the system by then).

Mainly because of the progression during levelling.

Horizontal progression requires more freedom in the character build than what we have. Either a skill tree or more characteristic points per level to create a build. The gear would need to become secondary too, not providing the major part of our stats. Instead it would provide some bonuses, skill increase, set bonuses... things like that.

Difficult to do in ARR