Thread: Requesting Information on Jobs: Preparing for 1.21

Originally Posted by Rukkirii

Hello! We received some information about job-specific gear that I'd like to share with you.

It won’t be possible to attach materia to job-specific gear. Job-specific gear will feature stats that are better than gear that is craftable that have more than one materia attached. With that said, we will look into adding new gear in future patches that will have better stats than job- specific gear with multiple materia attached to them.

There was also a question about the reasoning for the job-specific gear being referred to as AF (or artifact gear). While the upcoming job-specific gear is a type of artifact gear, there are plans to have other types of artifact gear in the future, some of which won’t necessarily be job-specific.

Awesome. Gear that only needs to be quested after flying through levels at light-speed being better than crafted gear. Doesn't the team think this is going to severely impact crafters and the economy since sales of equipment are going to stop dead in their tracks for months?

Originally Posted by Wynn

Awesome. Gear that only needs to be quested after flying through levels at light-speed being better than crafted gear. Doesn't the team think this is going to severely impact crafters and the economy since sales of equipment are going to stop dead in their tracks for months?

Play FFXI and do the Magian trials, they've already proven this won't happen if they make it require a decent amount of work and if they make the content challenging enough to warrant it it will have its place just like crafted gear with materia attached will still have its place.

The whole point of this is to balance out how powerful materia gear is, it's time for alternates that you can quest and/or get from raids, like people been wanting to happen.

Originally Posted by Starlord

Not really.. if the difficultly of the JSE is very hard to get... not many will be able to obtain them without a good LS to help with the cause

It's not going to be. It will be quested easily and, unlike XI, you can level to 50 in a few days here. This will completely marginalize materia and gear as it will no longer be needed. At least, for a few months that is. Just sayin....

Originally Posted by Wynn

It's not going to be. It will be quested easily and, unlike XI, you can level to 50 in a few days here. This will completely marginalize materia and gear as it will no longer be needed. At least, for a few months that is. Just sayin....

It's way easier to level in FFXI then it is in FFXIV. Guess you haven't played FFXI in the Abyssea era. You can go from level 1-99 in about 8 hours on any job. 1-30 if leeching people doing GoV in gusgen or boyada which doesn't take as long at all. 30 to 99 you can leech an FC in abyssea and be capped in no time. Only like 1 or 2 people even need to be killing the mobs and the other 16 can just sit there and leech exp. You can afk for almost all of your leveling too.

Leveling in FFXIV is a pain by comparison.

Originally Posted by Wynn

It's not going to be. It will be quested easily and, unlike XI, you can level to 50 in a few days here. This will completely marginalize materia and gear as it will no longer be needed. At least, for a few months that is. Just sayin....

One can only hope, in turn making Yoshida wonder what he was thinking and then completely scrapping the materia system .. or maybe not

I would like to think the new instances are somehow linked to the AF gear, hopefully multiple quests to return to both dungeons to get all gear pieces.

If the gear is soloable them I will be disappointed.

Originally Posted by Wynn

Awesome. Gear that only needs to be quested after flying through levels at light-speed being better than crafted gear. Doesn't the team think this is going to severely impact crafters and the economy since sales of equipment are going to stop dead in their tracks for months?

Let's not jump to conclusions when we don't know what the stats on each piece of the gear are and how difficult they are to obtain.

Originally Posted by Rukkirii

Hello! We received some information about job-specific gear that I'd like to share with you.

It won’t be possible to attach materia to job-specific gear. Job-specific gear will feature stats that are better than gear that is craftable that have more than one materia attached. With that said, we will look into adding new gear in future patches that will have better stats than job- specific gear with multiple materia attached to them.
There was also a question about the reasoning for the job-specific gear being referred to as AF (or artifact gear). While the upcoming job-specific gear is a type of artifact gear, there are plans to have other types of artifact gear in the future, some of which won’t necessarily be job-specific.

This is both good and bad sounding at the same time. Finally it seems that they are making an effort to make U/U armor more than a joke in comparison to crafted and melded armor. But then directly after that statement it looks like in the future they will be undermining this. They either need to make them seperate but equal like melded = stats and AF = trait and ability enhancers, or just make them equal (potentially) and tier them. For instance AF armor = crafted and melded x2 armor, then later they come out with relic armor = crafted and melded x 3 armor, etc etc. Another idea is they could move to U/T gear from dungeons and instances that has to be craftd from rare materials and can be multi-melded. Whatever they do, for the love of God, please dont play favorites with the 2 different systems every patch making one better than the other.