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

[Velhart]

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You really want to go to a system where lower level gear can potentially be better than higher level gear? Okay. SE would have to completely redo how stats in the game works and make secondary stats powerful enough that it competes with a main stat itself. FFXI's design of low level gear being relevant last I recall was not a praised feature. Was common complaint that new gear always felt irrelevant most of the time because gear like Haubergeon+1 was just better. It wasn't till end of ToAU/WoTG till we actually started seeing gear that could compare to it. Not to mention, it will inevitably become an unbalanced mess if low level gear had relevancy with high level gear. That means every time SE (who adds new gear roughly every 4 months) has to take into consideration of each piece of gear before it. FFXI updated it's gear about every year or so and didn't take into consideration of gear before it. I can give FFXI a pass because it was bound to PS2 limitations and cannot keep adding gear at the capacity they can with FFXIV now. You are creating a mess trying to do this, its not simple as you think it is. With the way it is set up now, it is much easier for SE to keep balance and don't have to take into consideration gear of the past.

Secondary stats do more than enough for people wanting to build a set to their liking. People do BiS if it is horizontal or vertical, but its there.

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I remember in WoW before they changed it to getting a set amount of valor during the week is you had to get on daily to do it. You could get valor in one dungeon run a day, and it would reset the next day, obligating you to be on every day if you were a dedicated player. Was changed to resetting every week and can get the amount you could in a week in a day if you wanted.

[Zarzak]

BLM's got buffed in response to how the class performed versus encounter design (because encounters with mobility elements were pimp-slapping BLMs). [/COLOR]

Mostly off topic but the funny thing is... They literally did nothing to help BLM mobility. They actually nerfed the one ability they could use while moving. Instead they came up with the brilliant idea to buff their stationary damage.

No, it is not "goes out of their way"
Because Yoshida announced this since beta.

No... What he announced was that lower end players would eventually see the content because they would gain more gear/levels thus making the content easier for them because their stats would exceed what the content was designed for.

So they would beat 1-5 because they now have ilvl 100 gear (weathered soldiery) which is 15-20 levels higher than what the content was designed for. And if that wasn't enough they would get ilvl 120 gear (unaugmented poetic) and be 25-30 levels higher than what the content was designed for.