The Gear Progress should be more depthful, especially, because adding new icon colors is easy af, same as adding a new icon for an other quality grade.

FF14 should provide the following gear progression

- Common Gear >............. White Color Icon > Weakest Stats, not colorable, 1-2 Materia Slots, improves 4 relevant Stats (DPS Stat + Vitality + either Critical, Direct, Determination, Quickness/Cast Speed or the Role Stats)
- Uncommon Gear >.......... Green Color Icon > 20% better Stats, colorable, 1-2 Materia Slots, improves 4relevant Stats
- Rare Gear >..................... Blue Color Icon > 30% better Stats, colorable, 2-3 Materia Slots, improves 4 relevant Stats
- Epic Gear >...................... Purple Color Icon > 40% better Stats, has up to two colorable slots, 3-4 Materia Slots, improves relevant 5 Stats ( DPS+ Vitality + Quickness/Cast Speed always plus 2 randoms)
- Legendary Gear >............ Red Color Icon > 50% better Stats, has up to 3 colorable slots, improves all relevant Stats, no Materia Slots

Quality Grades

Normal > Just simple trash quality, no Bonus Effects
High > Stat Bonus of 10%, adds eventually 1 Materia Slot > Claw Symbol
Excellent > Stat Bonus 15%, adds eventually 2 Materia Slots and second color slot > Circle Symbol
Masterwork > Stat Bonus > 20%, adds eventually 3 Materia Slots and two color slots > Star Symbol

How to get it

Normal > End Crafting with less than 25% Quality, guaranteed
High > End Crafting with less than 50% Quality for a Chance, range 26-49% has depending chance based on how close you were to 50% , 50% is guaranteed high quality
Excellent > End Crafting with less than 75% Quality for a Chance , range 51-74 increse that chance, 75% is guaranteed.
Masterwork > End Crafting with less than 100% Quality for a Chance , range 76- 99 increase that chance, 100% is guaranteed.


Common Gear > Monster Loot/Chests/Crafting
Uncommon Gear > Monster Loot/Chests/Crafting/Dungeons
Rare Gear > Tomestones/ Raid Loot NPC Trades/ Hard Dungeons/ Deep Dungeons/ Normal Raids)/Crafting
Epic Gear > Big Raids, Normal Raids Epic Difficulty, Trials Extreme Difficulty/ Treasure Hunts
Legendary Gear > Hunting Grounds (Eureka), Big Raids Extreme Difficulty, Fulfilling legendary Quests from NPC's