With full honesty how many times have you had to weigh one peice of gear to another for any given fight in XIV? There is no real strategy to gear in this game, you can literally get by on one set each job and no one will ever notice. That to me a huge problem, the main goal of any event is gear rewards. If gear rewards are not worth the effort the the event dies and becomes worthless. A flip side of this is crafting gear, it's a rather large effort to take a craft to 50 and if R/E gear is always going to be better then what's the point? XI was great about this since gear swaps allowed some gear to good for niche things so we had a ton of options so there was a balance in gear that dropped from events and gear that needed to be crafted