More advanced battle system please!

[DoctorPepper]

They've pretty much stated that they don't want too much complexity in this game due to the large number of casual or less skilled people who are playing it.

Personally what bugs me the most is lack of complexity in gear stats, there are no special stats, just the cut and dry base stats with a small handful of substats.

I would love to see some unique stats on gear that do things like improve job abilities, allow you to attack multiple times during auto-attacks, allow you to reflect or mitigate certain types of damage occasionally, the possibilities are pretty much endless and things like this would make gear feel a lot more unique to me.

I would also love to see some expansion to the cross class/job skills, it feels really dumbed down at the moment getting to only pick from a handful of skills for 2 other classes. Combat would be a lot more fun to me if I could actually make semi-hybrid jobs. Obviously there would still have to be key skills that can't be used on an offclass but it almost feels like a nerf when you get your job crystal and lose all of the options available pre-30 to me.

[Sumimi]

Personally what bugs me the most is lack of complexity in gear stats, there are no special stats, just the cut and dry base stats with a small handful of substats.

Unfortunately they went away from this as well. FFXI had somewhere in the ballpark of 6 main stats and 20 sub stats (+120 skill stats) that fit itself into a formula. Every time an action was done, entire equipment sets were swapped to optimize every action. As an example...as a Blue Mage I had two very different sets, and about 8 sets in total. The first was a pure STR set, which was to be used with Sneak Attack + Spell (Sneak Attack > Vertical Cleave ). The second was a pure DEFENSE set, used specifically to do massive damage to Kirin, an end game triggered boss (Sneak Attack > Cannonball).

People will always try to math their way to optimization. However, most people are against the idea of carrying around even 3 sets of gear per class with our limited armory space.