Job-Specific (Artifact) Gear

[Shneibel]

What do you think myself and my 7 friends are wearing while we are trying to get our U/U gear? Crafted gear has a place, but IMO gear you get from high level NM like Ifrit should be > crafted items, period.

true, but then again I still prefer job gear to be craftable so materia can put on them, for more custom as I dont want class gear to beat job gear but if job can use class gear then I have nothing more to say

edit: if job can use class gear, WTB bow-harp recipe and etc

[Jashynvald]

From this interview (at the bottom)

ZAM: The implementation of jobs is coming up. Will job quests be similar to FFXI? Also, how will job-specific armor be obtained?

Yoshida: We are currently plotting job quests, so I cannot reveal too much. There will be many different stages involving different trials and stories. There will be job-specific gear obtained during the process of job quests and in battle content. All of this will be available in patch 1.21.

ZAM: How will job-specific armor compare to other high-level gear in the game?

Yoshida: Job-specific armor will have higher abilities when used by its specific job. All job quests must be completed in order to obtain job-specific armor, so they will be difficult to obtain. However, we plan on having gear created by attaching multiple materia surpass job-specific armor in quality.

Now maybe people will use certain pieces of the job specific armor to stack stats to be more narrowly focused but it would be a sad day when everyone starts to look homogenized.

[Brannigan]

Now maybe people will use certain pieces of the job specific armor to stack stats to be more narrowly focused but it would be a sad day when everyone starts to look homogenized.

Yeah it'd suck if everyone was just using crafted gear with materia because it's by far the best wait oh crap

[Jashynvald]

Yeah it'd suck if everyone was just using crafted gear with materia because it's by far the best wait oh crap

At least with crafted gear you can chose to dye or not dye the gear in various colors (depending on piece of course). It has been confirmed that you have no choice in even a bit of customization with Artifact Gear.

Some Variety > No Variety.

I would prefer there be more ways to bling out gear (maybe make HQ look a bit better?) or different styles of the same item (beyond concerns for just gender) for aesthetic reasons (like embelishments or engraved patterns) but I can only hope for so much in what the art team puts out and is implemented in game.

[Isaveron]

I hope crafted gear (with materia) ends up being better than JSE, that way you have to choose between FFXI nostalgia and optimized gear.

[Jennestia]

I hope crafted gear (with materia) ends up being better than JSE, that way you have to choose between FFXI nostalgia and optimized gear.

I agree, it's better to keep Materia on top than try to balance it, you're absolutely correct.

[WiiSam]

Full-set bonus! Yes please!

[Arximiro]

I hope the AF sets are difficult to obtain and not more of this solo ridiculously easy crap like GC quests and all the other job quests. Difficult as in a hard fight and not just collect a huge amount of something.

Edit: All the class quests thus far that is, not job.

[Lakefingers]

Materia was an amazing move, however every coin has two sides and we are now seeing repercussions.

[Brannigan]

Materia was an amazing move, however every coin has two sides and we are now seeing repercussions.

Materia would have been amazing if they made it so you could add materia to U/U gear but like many things (Inferno Totems and Kupo nuts) they took a good idea and screwed it up.

e: sorry about the double post I'm on like nerd rage roids or something right now.