Itemization in FFXI in unexciting

[Kiroh]

Welcome to the WoW-type vertical progression MMO, where all the different stats are by and large redundant and can really be "condensed" to just one number.

Welcome to "What stat is it anyways?"! Where the numbers are made up and the gear doesn't matter.

[Ultimatecalibur]

5. PVP gear has no significant use outside of glamour.

This is wrong. The current BiS sets for i80 Frontlines make heavy use of PvP gear.

[Alyko]

I miss gear swapping, at least that added some metagame to FFXI. Here it's just "get the higher ilvl so you can join the latest instances"

[Deathscythe343]

I would like to see more gear or stat choices.

Take the poetics caster set for example, like 9 of 11 pieces have accuracy on them. Seems a bit excessive. I wish stats like crit and det were more abundant on the gear. Even with having only 3 pieces of poetics gear my BLM has the accuracy for T13. It makes little sense to me why the other stats are so poorly represented on the gear. Given that this is the gear that your average casual will be getting a set of, it seems like the stats could be more diverse.

[reality_check]

This is wrong. The current BiS sets for i80 Frontlines make heavy use of PvP gear.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't morale disabled in frontlines still?

[Teslo]

I miss gear swapping, at least that added some metagame to FFXI. Here it's just "get the higher ilvl so you can join the latest instances"

I actually hated the gear-swapping aspect of that game. lol It was soooooo cheesy! But what's worse, if you did it like you were supposed to, you never actually saw your character fighting. It'd always be invisible while the game loaded the new graphics. @_@

[Ryans]

Maybe if you do something beyond dungeons you'll notice the different value each secondary stat has. If you go with the wrong secondary stats, you will be vastly inferior to someone who chose more wisely. Don't believe me? Go pure Crit. lol

Vastly inferior? That is a bit of an exaggeration. No, that is a huge exaggeration. Does it impact dps? Yes, of course it does. Does it increase it anymore than a different, equivalent ilvl piece? Not really. Gear has set weight values for stats and it gives more of a stat if it has less impact. That weight makes up for any kind of choice. You can optimize your gear to not have skill speed, but it isn't going to up your sustained dps much more than a few points.

[TheMax1087]

This is wrong. The current BiS sets for i80 Frontlines make heavy use of PvP gear.

Pvp gear is worthless in front lines due to the Ilvl sync, that said, since they added an extra stat to it, some i110 pvp gear is better than it's soldiery or high allagan counterpart.

[Samburi]

Is this about gears in FF XI?
wrong forum?
why is everyone off-topic and talk about XIV gear?

[Lemuria]

I have to admit, gear in FFXIV is far to vanilla for my tastes. Every single item you can 'upgrade' to is just the same as before with a recolor and a few extra levels added on. Even the original Guild Wars had more horizontal variety than this game does. The problem is the developers are too scared to add unique and interesting stats in the fear that one piece will be coveted above the others.

Truth be told this happens anyway, but people turn a blind eye to it for some reason.

It would be nice to have a little... no, a lot more flavor to our stats. There's only so much of the same thing a player can take before it gets stale and boring.