I've been wondering this for ages. What's the point of the Unique status on gear? What does it do? All I've seen it do so far is cause problems and restrictions. There are so many good things that can come out of getting rid of this lock..

Unique Glamours for gear(even though that's more of a band-aid), more customization for individual jobs, easier desynths, easier GC turn-ins and more..

If I had the ability to buy more than one of the same castimg Creator piece I could.. create the best gear combo for each job or make glamours for each job! You can buy multiple gathering pieces or any other gear and make a bunch of combinations with those so why not tome/raid/dungeon gear?

Honestly I think for the sake of dungeon drops the Unique status should be reworked where you no longer have the power to Need on the piece you already have that drops and only allow Greed. That sounds fair.

For some jobs you might want Critical Hit on the piece for that class but Spell Speed for this class but you can't do it because you can't buy duplicates. Want to wear a BLM glamour and a RDM one? Can't because you can't buy duplicates. Now, obviously it would require extra slots, but it only makes that way.

So can this be changed?