Armor + Bonus stats

[ZhycranaDranix]

Early on playing this game ( about a year 1/2 ago) I noticed the only ''Bonus'' stats you got from wearing gear of the same ''likeness'' was the GC gear, adding a minimal stat boost each piece you wore....

Why aren't the Dreadwyrm / Augmented gears like that ?

Do you think we will see this sorta of horizontal progression in the future , as stated ? Rather than boasting a i200 character ?

I think it'd be reasonable to see a +2 per piece on sub stats and a +1 per piece on base

Thoughts ?

[HakuroDK]

There are pros and cons to this.

Pros:

-People would be less willing to mix and match sets for BiS and instead opt for full gear sets of the same kind of gear.
-It could feasibly balance the casual and hardcore.

Cons:

-To get the full benefit, you would need every piece of gear, and most people get gear one piece at a time.
-It could feasibly cause a disparity in stats between casual and hardcore players.

I would personally like to see it on lower-tier sets, but not hardcore endgame sets.

[Darra]

Cons:
-To get the full benefit, you would need every piece of gear, and most people get gear one piece at a time.
-It could feasibly cause a disparity in stats between casual and hardcore players.
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These points makes no sense. There is already a "disparity" between stats of the hardcore vs casual from the existing gear in game, after all hardcore have access to all their BIS items. Seeing as hardcore players aren't competing with casuals in any manor, it wont make any difference. Had existing Poetics and Dreadwyrm gear been of use in PVP then you might have a point, but there is separate gear for PVP and Frontlines level synchs everyone so the disparity wont exist there. If you were to put bonuses on PVP gear, again, it wont matter, hardcore players will get gear at a faster rate than casuals anyway so a disparity is going to occur regardless. It's also not like there is any competition between casuals and hardcore in PVE, and if there was, again, hardcore would "win" with existing gear.

As for "To get the full benefit, you would need every piece of gear, and most people get gear one piece at a time", so what? Other MMOs such as GW2 and WOW have set bonuses, and that gear is obtained one piece at a time. I really do not understand your point here, unless you're trying to say "bonuses are worthless unless you can get them at the very start", but then, that same argument applies to BIS, why have a BIS set when you can't get it all at once?

Lastly, I do not understand why you think there is a need to balance hardcore vs casual. I've already mentioned the fact there's no competition, and at the end of the day, bonus stats aren't going to make a bad player any better and they're not going to compensate for the fact a casual might only play 1/10th of the amount of hours of a hardcore player.

[ZhycranaDranix]

Yes I see the Cons but you wouldn't need the full gear set to be optimally the best
I would see a mix benefit gain as majority of the BiS is mixed between Augmented and Dread for most classes
Getting a full set would see a huge loss somewher i.e a full MNK dread set is wayy to much acc so you're taking loss right off the back
by not mixing and gaining stat bonus while mixing gears to fully optimize .....

I think it'd be cool, we'd probably see different mix and matches and might just might steer away from the uniformed toon

[Bombast]

Yes I see the Cons but you wouldn't need the full gear set to be optimally the best
I would see a mix benefit gain as majority of the BiS is mixed between Augmented and Dread for most classes
Getting a full set would see a huge loss somewher i.e a full MNK dread set is wayy to much acc so you're taking loss right off the back
by not mixing and gaining stat bonus while mixing gears to fully optimize .....

I think it'd be cool, we'd probably see different mix and matches and might just might steer away from the uniformed toon

So... you want to give a bonus for what most people are already doing (Mixing gear sets).

The only people not mixing gear are people who can't. So your really just creating a larger gap between Tome gear and Coil/Raid gear.

[Trespar]

Stat bonuses are boring.

But I'd be down with set bonuses that do interesting things, at two and four left(<-) side pieces of the same set.