GC items Fail = SE Fail

[TheVedis]

i actually like the way they do GC gear cause i hate it when everyone looks the same.

another hugely valid point, and the fact that i am agreeing with you in specific says alot cuz i generaly hate your posts

[TheVedis]

Remember the good old days...when the best gear in the game was raid gear...and everyone was able to get it...no one was left out...yah....just like every other MMO on the market...SE has backwards fundamentals on core game design

whenever a game releases an aspect of the game that makes you choose you can run into these issues though

look at other games where you have to choose "light vs dark" or "villian vs hero" or "hoard vs alliance"
one side will always have some advantage in some areas while the other has it in others
and the balance will tip back and forth depending on the day of the week and what is released

in the end, again, its a game and some people take that 1 point of stat someone else may be able to get over them WAY WAY too seriously the way you are doing right now

[Jennestia]

If you are under the mentality that "it doesn't matter it will be obsolete eventually anyways" is completely irrelevant to an argument when you are talking about an MMO because it simply shows that the person saying it has no business playing an MMO in the first place.

..Which is exactly what most modern MMOs have been practicing for the past few years. There's still no advantage unless you can prove that Immortal Flames for example gives you complete game changing advantage over Maelstrom for example -- I want to see a quest from Immortal flames that will progress your character further than if you join Maelstrom, I also want to see how joining Maelstrom or Twin Adder will progress you slower.

That's unbalance. Items that will be obsoleted isn't unbalancing anything.

[Req]

..Which is exactly what most modern MMOs have been practicing for the past few years. There's still no advantage unless you can prove that Immortal Flames for example gives you complete game changing advantage over Maelstrom for example -- I want to see a quest from Immortal flames that will progress your character further than if you join Maelstrom, I also want to see how joining Maelstrom or Twin Adder will progress you slower.

That's unbalance. Items that will be obsoleted isn't unbalancing anything.

It prevents you from progressing to the optimal setup for gear for this patch, even if you want to. You don't seem to understand that gear is near everything in this game, like I stated in the first post I made in this topic. It would be like saying everyone can do the ifrit quest but only uldahns can get ifrit weapons in the last patch. Yeah they will be obsolete, but ill be damned if i am not doing 150 damage more per weaponskill with my harpoon which equates to about 3000 damage more for me per ifrit fight, and I know its going to help me on the moogle fight.

[TheVedis]

It prevents you from progressing to the optimal setup for gear for this patch, even if you want to. You don't seem to understand that gear is near everything in this game, like I stated in the first post I made in this topic. It would be like saying everyone can do the ifrit quest but only uldahns can get ifrit weapons in the last patch. Yeah they will be obsolete, but ill be damned if i am not doing 150 damage more per weaponskill with my harpoon which equates to about 3000 damage more for me per ifrit fight, and I know its going to help me on the moogle fight.

no one can be optimized though, thats another point people are choosing to ignore

every guild has peices that are better then others, so in the end, everyone will want a peice from another guild they cant have, and that isnt "non optimization" but balance itself

your best legs may come from company a, while the helmet from company b

everyone in the same company as you will have equal rights to the same peices, and people in others will have their peices

the incentive is that you get the choice of which company you go with and thats the peices you get optimized
if you chose the other guild, well then youd be out the legs instead of the head, either way, youd be out a peice

and since NO ONE can get all of them, then its not like someone has an advantage over you as such, no, they are in the same boat you are


so when you speak of optimization, optimization vs what? other players, or against what you feel are the best peices in the game regardless of the fact no one can actualy have all at the same time

[Nakiamiie]

It prevents you from progressing to the optimal setup for gear for this patch, even if you want to. You don't seem to understand that gear is near everything in this game, [...]

First of all, gear is not even close to being "everything" in this game. Second, you can not always be in a "optimal setup of gear", otherwise there would be only 1 set for every few levels. If you are obsessed with equipment, it's your problem, it's not the game's problem or GC's items' problem or FFXIV devs' problem or even SE's problem.

You want to play this game with optimal gear all the time? It's possible, but it sure won't be easy. You shouldn't burden everyone else with your elitist setup because you want it easier to be "optimal". Grand Company's gear is different from each other and it is fine like that, it adds diversity and uniqueness to each Grand Company. In the next patch, it might be The Maelstrom that gets the super awesome gear, in the one after it will be another. But in the end, it will be evenly split, but all different.