SE, Please do somthing about the boring gear stats.. Please just read first...

[Marcux]

Seriously, more variety? Every piece of gear has basically a little more of the same stat from the last. You have nothing you work hard for gear wise.

Where are the gear stats? Make gear worth it, every other MMO has this?
+ Poison Resist
+ Elemental Resist
+ TP refresh bonus
+ Mp refresh bonus
+ Bonus to mp on sunny days?
1% of autoattack damage is converted to hp!

Seriously, do somthing, make a Little horizontal gear progression, people like to actually work for gear that isn't replaced in a day. I160 gear? gone in less than a day...

Yoship's reasoning is this would make some people or jobs desirable over others.

really? you can choose who you want in duty finder? Your going to kick someout out of party finder because they don't have tp bonus?
Sounds like an excuse.

What about those games that square are known for, almost all final fantasy's have some type of job combined ability's.. Skill chains, triple attacks.. be unique, give people a reason to chain ability's together. make being in a party fun..

after the 3.0 story, ffxiv feels like another repeat of endgame 2.0.. weekly kill, get vertical loot, wait a week... repeat. Give us a 100 floor randomly generated dungeon to explore.. somthing to do in the meantime. I believe you did that with a few other final fantasy games.

I know what people are going to say, If you don't like it, leave.. etc.. etc.. Yeah, I know. I get it. I don't want to leave, I just want them to make the game more enjoyable. Right now it feels like your on a boring vertical gear grind. Fates are terrible.. terrible..
Why can't we make Exp parties where we set up camp and pull monsters again? It feels like monster placement in the overworld is just there to slow you down from running to quest points. Can we give the mob placement an actual reason to be there, maybe XPing on them?

[Aegis]

This. We had it in 1.x and lost it in the transition to 2.0.

Give relics job-specific bonuses like -pdt for Paladins or Cover Duration+ or whatever.

Give Ifrit weapons enfire bonuses.

Give some mage gear refresh+.

Something that means that ilevel is not the be all and end all stat.

Edit: iirc Yoshi said this was something they would look into after 2.0 released. Perhaps an update on this?

[Musashidon]

someone wasn't around when you needed a paladin to stun ifrit and a summoner/blm to lb nails.

people literally dropped duty over it, so yes if people choose to use useless stats they will be kicked/harrassed/shuned

[Felis]

Seriously, more variety? Every piece of gear has basically a little more of the same stat from the last. You have nothing you work hard for gear wise.

Where are the gear stats? Make gear worth it, every other MMO has this?
+ Poison Resist materia
+ Elemental Resist materia
+ TP refresh bonus
+ Mp refresh bonus
+ Bonus to mp on sunny days? materia (meld a gear that you will wear at sunny days)

For TP and MP refresh we have potions and skills

[Marcux]

You don't want to make some people desirable over other.. here is a fix!
Seriously, even if you have to cut back on the stats on weapons, example. "give ifrit weapon enfire bonus"
Cut back on the damage from the weapon itself and give it to the bonus..
let's say you'd create a weapon with 200 damage..
give the weapon 190 damage with a 10 damage enfire bonus.. even if you fool the player. The player doesn't realize they arn't even getting a bonus.. cripe, make the enemy engulf in flame after you hit it and call it enfire bonus. I don't care. just.. do something different.. lol

[Marcux]

I'm just using those for examples.. I assume that SE can come up with better idea's then me

[Felis]

Seriously, even if you have to cut back on the stats on weapons, example. "give ifrit weapon enfire bonus"
Cut back on the damage from the weapon itself and give it to the bonus..
let's say you'd create a weapon with 200 damage..
give the weapon 190 damage with a 10 damage enfire bonus.. even if you fool the player. The player doesn't realize they arn't even getting a bonus.. cripe, make the enemy engulf in flame after you hit it and call it enfire bonus. I don't care. just.. do something different.. lol

Also with a chance of 25% to trigger the enfire bonus. A bonus that is non-stop active is not really a bonus.

Little extra effects I will like to see on primal weapons

Ifrit: 10% chance to do a AoE auto-attack damage (fire spread out)
Garuda: 10% chance to speed up movement speed by 20% (wind speed up)
Ramuh: 10% chance to stun the enemy (stunned by lightning)

[Makado]

They could at least get rid of accuracy entirely. There is no point to it and with it removed people could play more style they wanted (skill speed all, crit all, det all, etc)

[Rajeme]

And with that, the race for gears begins...

Mr.Much money & Ms.Best luck win!

[Nalien]

I'm waiting for something like this.

Gear gets some degree of interesting stats to aim for? Check.
Those stats don't force you to wear that gear for the next ten years like in Final Fantasy XI? Check.
Additional grinding content to further enhance and specialize your Jobs, like Final Fantasy XIs Merit system? Check.

Certainly seems like a perfectly simply solution to giving gear unique stats without making certain gear vastly superior because of those bonuses... I mean of course it is, it's an idea taken directly from the best Final Fantasy game. Just do it Yoshida. It has plenty of room for additions going forward as well; Bards AF1 body could have "Enhances Ballads", AF1.5 could have "Enhances Ballads II", and the upcoming AF2 "Enhances Ballads III". Would add an extra level of thought going into encounters as well; "Do I need this set for this fight?", etc. which I'd certainly enjoy. Only issue I'd perhaps have is grinding to unlock stuff, but as long as it is streamlined and not stuck suffering at the hands of the RNGesus (like Materia, I swear 99% of my hate for SBing comes from Convert giving me trash) I don't think I'd mind too much.