More Horizontal Progression please

[Astral145]

Agreed I would rather have horizontal progression than vertical progression. I just wish they did something more with the current gear. Its too bland and it gets outdated way to fast. I would rather have 3 types of gear. Tomes, raid and special gear. The special gear is for you to gain new traits or upgrade old traits and skills by spirit bonding the special gear.

The Tome and raid gear/weapons would have special slots kinda like materia slots so you can add special enhanced stats like a % boosts to dmg to bards when not singing a song or increased heals on certain skills and increased potency to songs on bards....ect. You would have to grind out dungeons and other content to get these special materias to add to your normal gear.

They can give sub roles to each job by implementing certain special materias for the normal gear progression. For example they could turn bards into rangers while not in tp/mp battery mode. By simply adding a special Ranger materia to a bow it will boost the damage of the weapon to even out with other dps's but if you sing a song the weapon damage will drop back to normal.

There is so much more I can add to this but what I'm trying to say is the devs need to stop with the vertical climb and give us something worth grinding for.