The Future Of Elemental Stats

[Coglin]

Yeah, I hate this idea. Last thing I want out of this game is to lose options. EQII ruined it for me when they did this with resist and stats. I too prefere to have 1-2 elements I specialize in. It will realy annoy the heck ot of me if they take that away.

[Estellios]

There's gear that boosts elemental affinity by a lot as it is, earrings and circlets off the top of my head, that can help influence specific shards.

@Coglin just focus your specific elements in the Materia you set. I'm personally going for Fire/Wind/Thunder potency since those were the ones I'm focusing on currently, with some healing magic potency and enmity down (if those 2 are available) thrown in as well.

[Coglin]

Caliburn, you do realize you can reallocate stats in this game right? Your more restricted by geting your affinity with gear then you are via stats by far.

Someone made a comment earlier about jewelry and what not that boost affinity. So what? Now I am supposed to be forced to lose all my mind/piety I have from those items to keep my affimity with water/ice up where I like it? I do not feel thats reasonable. This is supposed to be an armoury system with player allocated stats and affinities in which players have total control over there character build and the role they play. This is a step in taking some of that which draws me to the game away.

[Caliburn]

Caliburn, you do realize you can reallocate stats in this game right? Your more restricted by geting your affinity with gear then you are via stats by far.

Yes, but this is limited to a certain amount of points each go on a timer.

[Alise]

Will this mean that if you want to be the strongest mage of fire element then you have to equip all set of gear with fire attribute?

I hope the future trend of black mage doesn't need 6x set of gear to be recruited btw... (you gotta be best at all element or you are useless.. some sort like that..) :S

[Felis]

[COLOR=darkred]Will this mean that if you want to be the strongest mage of fire element then you have to equip all set of gear with fire attribute?

Fire and Int. And don't forget MIND. Without the MP, your power is powerless ^^
But you wouldn't make great damage on wind monsters (fire is weak against wind).

[Leknaat]

Since they're removing the accessory point limit (and maybe removing a couple of accessory slots)

Does the dev team also have plans to address the additional strain on our inventory extra earrings/rings/etc will likely cause?

Like... are there plans to add more item inventory space? (not retainer.... although an additional retainer would be nice too) but my main concern is the items we lug about on our characters.