Should Melee gear be ...homogonized?

[Esmoire]

It's something I've been wanting, yeah. I think I am okay with all melee DPS sharing gear. It has the collateral of making it easier to itemize multiple jobs at current tier but I don't think it is unfair to say, as it is now, most people really just want to make sure a job or two or role is up to date and the rest they'll get to whenever. And even then, tank mains like myself or caster or healer mains have already enjoyed this luxury.

So really, the biggest concern is aesthetic diversity. A valid concern, though it's worth noting that this kind of change would almost certainly only be done with a new expansion at some point in the future, if it ever happened. This means you already have years and years and years worth of gear I assume would be normalized and opened up to anyone of that role to equip.

I get why people are worried with how relatively little ranged gear is dancer-like, though I think all the current melee stuff has a lot of pre-installed diversity. Going forward, if theoretically they only do one set of slaying gear for all the melee, they'll just look at where things are undersaturated and try to add more gear with later waves. Honestly we already have a lot of melee gear that is sharing appearances across stat set or DRG gear with tank gear so I am not going to pretend a lot would be lost.

[Deceptus]

Monk and Ninja should have shared gear (Fast attacks / Light armor)

Dragoon and Samurai should have shared gear. (Heavy attacks / Medium armor)

Be done with it.

[ForteNightshade]

You might think it's a silly argument, but it's something that really bothers me.
And like you said, it shafts DNC extra hard because none of the gear pre-70 was made with Dancers aesthetic in mind.

I meant it's a silly argument for the Melee when dev team obviously doesn't care about aesthetic given how little consideration Dancer's received. To better phrase it, either aesthetic is important, thus every job should be considered, i.e. tome gear made for Dancers. Or it doesn't matter at all, in which case, they can't use it as an excuse for not syncing all the Melee gear into one set.

[SomeRandomHuman]

I never understood why all the melee dps needed separate sets when every other role only had 1 set for it. There is no reason for drg to have more defense than the other melee since they still die in a few hits anyway. Just make them all 1 armor set. They did it with accessories already.

So instead of:
-Tanks
-Dragoon
-Monk/Samurai
-Ninja
-Bard/Dancer/Machinst
-Healers
-Magic dps.

It should be:
-Tanks
-Strength dps
-Dexterity Dps
-Healers
-Magic Dps

Loot tables wouldn't be excessively cluttered and it would keep gear bloat down more. We don't need every armory chest slot looking like main hand weapons.

[Arngrim_Greyashe]

No thanks. I like it as is.