Simplicity over complexity, time to change.

[Exstal]

Same goes for Aion, never was I shunned from a group or run because I didn't have the right gear or stats or asked what my stats were even. In fact, you could block people from examining your gear all together.

I would shun you if you didn't have the required DPS to warrant your spot. Unless you were a healer, then all you had to be is mildly intelligent. As for blocking your gear, I *hated* that to no end. What a completely, and utterly, worthless feature. All it did was make it so I had to ask people what they were using to join important instances.

You should have been on my server, I'd ask you for that!

Horizontal gearing only worked in Aion because of PvP. If you did anything other than the reasonable stats for PvE; if magic you used Magical Boost, and Magical accuracy; if you were melee crit/acc/attack; if you were healer, whatever you wanted to slot as long as you weren't stupid. PvP stats could be any myriad of stats depending on your playstyle. But even in that regard, some builds were far superior to others. You wouldn't see Clerics stacking HP for PvP lest they get melted by both melee and magic. Tanks wouldn't stack evasion because it was worthless as they couldn't pass natural accuracy on those who would hit them. So it worked in some sense, but only in one aspect of the game and not even remotely in the other.

If they did something like that here, then it would make some ground but this is a PvE game first, Vanity game second, PvP game third. They'd have to pull some FFXI stuff to make it work. I do not like FFXI, they let Ninja become a tank because balance is irrelevant.