Quote Originally Posted by lawlHT View Post
This game could definitely use some variation in its gear, through introducing more stats or amplifying job abilities through gear, and it would do a lot to make each piece of gear feel unique.

But a lot of people in this topic have some serious rosy tint to their glasses when they talk about ffxi. That game was just as much of a grind fest as this one, with the added bonus of sometimes going literal years without seeing certain drops. I'm much happier with this games loot system than I ever was with xi's
One of the things that people forget about in FFXI was camping HNM. King Behemoth, Nidhogg, and Aspi dropped some of the best items in the game. On average they would only spawn once a week and sometimes would have upwards of 10 or more groups camping them. None of these HNMs were hard at all but getting the claim against everyone else in the zone was. So yes you had 1 chance a week and most of the time you didn't get to fight the boss because your group didn't win the claim.

This is why FFXIV system of instances is much better because everyone gets to fight the bosses and gets loot.