Question Regarding Items

[LineageRazor]

A quick note about Aetherial gear (the pink gear)...

Excluding the Diadem stuff, Aetherial equipment is basically identical to high quality crafted gear, with random stats slapped on for good measure. HQ white gear can be made better than pink gear by attaching materia to it - however, this is rarely worth doing. Any content that you'd wear white or pink gear for is going to be content that's ALREADY easy enough to do without bothering to optimize your gear.

You can think of Aetherial equipment as though it's crafted white gear with a couple random materia socketed for you.

Also worth noting: Most pink and white gear are convertible. This means you can change them into materia once you've used them for a while, which gives you something useful you can do with them other than just throwing them away or selling them to an NPC for pennies. This is called Spiritbonding, and once your spiritbond with an item reaches 100%, you can convert it if it is convertible.

Most green and blue gear are NOT convertible. Some pieces are, but most are not. When you're done with these gear, the best you can do with them is trade them in for Grand Company Seals, a special currency that's useful for a few things.

One other use for old white, pink, green, and blue gear is Desynthesis. This is an aspect of crafting, and you need to be at least level 30 in a craft before you can desynthesize equipment related to that craft. Desynthesis destroys the equipment and awards you an item of some kind, usually a crafting ingredient, and sometimes quite valuable.