Horizontal progression? In MY theme park?!

[Nora_of_Mira]

The same argument will be made every time this comes up: any kind of bonus that grants any significant difference (Vit+, Spell speed, movement speed? that's debatable) will only become the "preferred build" for clearing certain content and people will be gated depending on how significant the bonuses are. As it stands, all normal content has no need for these bonuses so the harm it would potentially cause is debatable (would people care?). But for savage content, the meta is already established that you pump your substats into w/e makes your DPS higher (exception being early progression and VIT).

Overall, I dont see a place in FFxiv for horizontal progression as the gear will be replaced every few months. To me, "horizontal progression" in FFxiv's terms is gearing/leveling alt jobs while your main job has nothing to do until next patch.

edit: meant alt jobs, not alt characters