SE enough of the treadmill, please make the game more interesting!

[Nalien]

Serious want to go full circle just to be stubborn?

As far as I'm concerned, you're the one stubbornly cherry picking quotes to try and continue this. Here's what you should focus on;

Also doesn't change the fact that I want gear to be relevant as gear, which such gear plainly isn't at this point. When you obtain gear like Shikaree's Doublet, you do not look at it as a relevant piece of gear, that is the issue I was highlighting. Saying "I look at it as a source of Company Seals" is either a moot point, or further adding to my point.

Either that or actually dispute that Crafters aren't just Glamour peddlers, because going "They're useful for Crafters/Desynth so I can make more Glamour gear" really just QEDs my "They're only useful for Glamour".

Then again..wouldn't want to make something so powerful that it isn't replaced for three years. I don't know..anything I think up I'm sure there would be a problem. Then again this is why I just play the games and don't design them.

This is why I like this suggestion.

You get to obtain multiple pieces of gear. Look at their unique stats. Go about permanently learning them and then picking between them without having to worry about keeping the gear for the rest of the games life like XI did. If Shikaree's Doublet had High Tide attached to it, absolutely everyone go out of their way to obtain it and it would be far more relevant than "B...but it gives me Seals!". An overpowered example, but you get the idea. Instead of (apparently relevant) gear being something you obtain and instantly cash in, it's something you hold onto and actually treat like gear, even if it does eventually end up in the same state as our current Glamour based wardrobe simulator.