Gear, weapons, armor, stats discussion (for the future)

[Mycow8me]

So as it stands gear is strictly stats and there really isn't much variety. I know some players are ok with that or even like it this way, that's fine.

Just curious as to what people think the future in this game is going to be like gear wise for things like TP, skills, and abilities.

As it stands (based on my experience alone) my drg has 438 skill speed at lvl 50 and I burn through TP faster than I can retain it, even using invigorate. I could only imagine that at lvl 60 with better gear and more skill speed that becomes even worse. Are there plans in the future for gear that adds TP or TP regen? Is the max being increased at a certain level, should it be increased? Should TP timer skills be lowered?

While I appreciate the idea of keeping gear perfectly balanced stat wise, its just so bland IMO. Are we going to see gear that enhances skills and abilities in the future? Honestly, I figured this kind of gear would have been implemented already with yoshida, kinda surprised. My personal opinion is that it would be awesome to see gear that affects your class performance.

In terms of variety. Some people don't like variety cause it gives off the kind of mentality that "if you don't have x-gear, you can't do y-fight". It's usually more of an elitest thing though and simply not true for anything other than being able to perform better for the said fight.

I dunno, what are other peoples thoughts on future gear and HP,TP,MP etc... I think there are certain aspects of the game that will need changed in the near or slightly distant future.

[sirDarts]

I'm pretty sure I have run the majority of dungeons, and some trials that are in the leveling roulette on my DRG (currently lvl 58), and I don't remember ever running out of TP in a fight, UNLESS I was using AoE.

As for additional stats. They tend to become really hard to balance, and also many stats usually turn out to be a useless waste of a stat-slot. I'd rather see a better distribution of the current stats. For example the low Crit chance on my SCH Eso gear is making me sad.

[Mycow8me]

Well, there are some fights that I don't burn out my TP in time before the boss is dead. In terms of larger HP bosses or higher level bosses though, I always burn out unless the bard uses a tp song. This is assuming there is a bard and the bard actually sings.

[shao32]

the actual stads and gear sistem works fine in 2.0, but in 3.0 start to show isues and make umbalance some clases like tanks.

i don't know what are they plan to do and what changes made, meaby whe don't see any extreme change before 4.0 but for future they need upgrade the stads sistem and gear too.

tp issues i alwais see this something like a physical resistance in real life, for me tp issues after x time in destroyer mode is fine, our characters are mortarls after all ^^

[Itseotle]

SE did say that they would consider set bonuses for 3.0. I think that's a step in the right direction and I'm still looking forward to it

[DragonHunterG]

maybe at the very least if you have a full set equipped you get some stat bonuses ala Grand Company equipment, or a particular mix of equipment.