More advanced battle system please!

[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.