Ummm about elemental resistance

[Grey_Cain]

Well, they didn't forget about it completely, unfortunately. They still have a ton of gear that gets it (mostly Primal gear after 50), but without materia there's no way to stack it high enough to get any reasonable resistance (estimating from his conclusion means that 100 extra points of resistance is worth about 12% damage resist), and with materia and gear dedicated to resistances your other stats suffer.

If they made the resistance higher and/or gave an equal bonus to damage against enemies of that element, it might almost be worth it, but it's still a joke right now with no changes planned. I'd expect to see absolutely no Heavensward gear with any elemental resistances on it, however, since it really is a remnant of 1.0 that got cut because they didn't want to unbalance the classes/jobs (like making BLM required for Ifrit/Shiva to the exclusion of all other dps, or putting WHM on the frontlines for Titan/Garuda).