More Horizontal Progression please

[Nektulos-Tuor]

FFXI worked for horizontal progression for one main reason - the ability to macro change gear in battle on the fly. This allowed people to min/max gear to fit the specific action (although the blinking used to drive healers nuts). Swapped gear would often contain buffs specific to the actions performed - more so than changing primary or secondary stats. So, you would swap the gear in to do a buff (put up Sneak Attack for example) and swap it back for max damage when you executed your next attack. If that attack was a weaponskill, you would macro in the gear that affected that weaponskill, then swap back. You could easily be carrying - and using - 5 or 6 pieces of gear for every gear slot (the only exception being your main weapon as changing that would reset your TP).

Frankly, I don't miss this and wouldn't want to see it added to FFXIV.

That is bad game design honestly. When I say Horizontal Progression gear. I mean gear like this.

http://eq2.zam.com/db/item.html?eq2i...9b0fcf037945cc
http://eq2.zam.com/db/item.html?eq2i...dce40f771d6f91
http://eq2.zam.com/db/item.html?eq2i...c84178c2e09dfd
http://eq2.zam.com/db/item.html?eq2i...2c928dbc478081
http://eq2.zam.com/db/item.html?eq2i...aa87b89b8b536b
http://eq2.zam.com/db/item.html?eq2i...145f5d94f205c6
http://eq2.zam.com/db/item.html?eq2i...ad614085382ef7
http://eq2.zam.com/db/item.html?eq2i...88d4d8fbbd1cfe
http://eq2.zam.com/db/item.html?eq2i...9cfcbaaa75c6aa

Notice how they all have similar stats? This is the kind of gear you pick to your playstyle. You do not need to switch it out, you build your character around it.

FFXI was just a badly designed game where you needed things like different resistances per fight and such and you needed gear for different fights.

EQ2 also puts an internal cool-down on your character. If you try to equip a piece of gear all your spells and abilities go on a small GCD, for each piece. The items spell/proc effects are also removed from you when you take off the gear.

[Xatsh]

Never understood the want for 1 gear set for everything mentality.

It just leads to not having enough stuff to do at endgame.

[Iromi]

Never understood the want for 1 gear set for everything mentality.

It just leads to not having enough stuff to do at endgame.

Agreed. Add that to the fact of how quickly it goes obsolete and there goes motivation to acquire said gear lol.