I have seen many people complain about gear customization and unique abilities on gear since the game launched, and it has become clear that these unique abilities are not coming to the game anytime soon.

What I would like to see to remedy this problem is an augment system. This system would have an additional slot(s) in your gear window and would allow you to slot augment crystals into your character. Instead of abilities being on gear, they would be a separate entity contained within these crystals.

Equipping these crystals will give you a unique buff like:

- increased movement speed (stackable with sprint and swiftsong etc.)
- increased mount speed
- visual effects
- discounted teleports
- transmutation

and more.

This could potentially be used for battle effects as well (as people have been screaming for), but that is extreamly unlikely to happen for balance reasons and hostile PF reasons (LFG - must have doublestrike augment)