Why does this game hide essential character info?

[Makeda]

Most of the time it doesn’t matter.

Best in slot here is highest iLevel in all but rare cases where there was a bad decision by the devs or where the crafted iLevel is below the max iLevel but extremely close, and you’re comparing a crafted overmeld with something and meed to actually look at the stats...

Usually if the craft gear has the same iLevel, the stats are the same.

So then you have melding. And for some jobs this is going to only make a 1% difference at best while for others it’s “can do rotation” vs “rotation won’t work”...
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So sometimes not knowing the stats is no issue and sometimes it’s vital...

I guess I’ve just argued myself out of my point...

At the least I would love to be able to see what my actual GCD is... that’s the most common place where you want a specific value not too high or too low...

[Nora_of_Mira]

At the least I would love to be able to see what my actual GCD is... that’s the most common place where you want a specific value not too high or too low...

I just mouse over any of my weaponskills and look at the tooltip, but now that i type that, yeah I think there should be a better way than that.

[Makeda]

I just mouse over any of my weaponskills and look at the tooltip, but now that i type that, yeah I think there should be a better way than that.

I’ve never seen my GCD listed, but will recheck.

[linay]

I’ve never seen my GCD listed, but will recheck.

It's the recast time.