Are the numbers too high?

[Jinko]

It seems to me they have obviously take into account future gear.
At level 99 we will be seeing much bigger increases in stats, stop thinking of lvl 50 as end game and it won't seem so bad.

I agree the difference between being fully geared and naked is a bit disconcerting, most MMO's are heavily dependant on armour (WoW for example), I have to admit I would like gear to have much more meaning, but then I would also like to see the Materia sysyem die in a fire.

As has mentioned regarding weapons, the damage stat should be reevaluated and possibly derived from a calculation of other stats such as ATK, STR and DEX, same for magic based weapons, obviously being INT and MAG ATK and MND and Healing.