Belts being gone and their slots' allocation

[Absurdity]

Respectfully, people like you are holding the game back. It's a ring. Something you really don't see unless you zoom in extremely close. You won't see it unless you're actively looking for it.

What you are doing is holding back the game for something less than probably 1% of the player base care about.

My question would be, why do any of the slots have to go in the first place? Why does the playerbase have to give up things they've had since the start because the dev team didn't future proof their game? It isn't players that are holding this game back, it is the game's own damn engine, the foundation it was built on.


And don't tell me they're removing belts because they're not visible on your character anyway. Sure they aren't visible, but that has been the case for what, 7 years now? They're only going away because it's the only way they can expand our character's inventory, because the engine is barely holding together. It's the same reason why we can't have infinite glamour-dresser slots, adding more always brings this game close to imploding.

[ItMe]

Respectfully, people like you are holding the game back. It's a ring. Something you really don't see unless you zoom in extremely close. You won't see it unless you're actively looking for it.

What you are doing is holding back the game for something less than probably 1% of the player base care about.

The feature is there, so I use it.
If it's ever cut I will deal with the incredible loss like an adult lol

[WhyAmIHere]

Respectfully, people like you are holding the game back. It's a ring. Something you really don't see unless you zoom in extremely close. You won't see it unless you're actively looking for it.

What you are doing is holding back the game for something less than probably 1% of the player base care about.

With little due respect, there's plenty of people, myself included, that like looking at our characters, and want to make sure what we're looking at looks appealing for whatever situation/setting we place our characters in. Taking screenshots at dramatic angles for one example.

That besides if the producer says "We see enough players use this thing so we're gonna keep it," it kinda pulls the rug out from under your argument of "oNlY <1% oF tHe PlAyErS uSe ThAt FeAtUrE."

[Nezerius]

Respectfully, people like you are holding the game back. It's a ring. Something you really don't see unless you zoom in extremely close. You won't see it unless you're actively looking for it.

What you are doing is holding back the game for something less than probably 1% of the player base care about.

I think you're greatly underestimating the percentage of players that like to use rings as glamour items. You're essentially saying that the amount of people who care about rings is far, far below the amount of players that have cleared UCoB ("less than probably 1%" vs 4.5%.).

When estimating the amount of people who care about rings, keep in mind that a small change to the 2B leggings caused enough of a backlash for Yoshi-P to personally address it during a live letter, and ensuring players that the leggings would be fixed asap. I'd imagine the removal of a ring slot would be met with a similar reaction from the playerbase.

[TarynH]

but some are left handed (DRG)

Except they're not. Dominant hands go to the back of thrusting weapons. The non-dominant hand is used for stability (aiming), while the strength of the thrust comes from the dominant hand. DRG even throws their polearm with their right hand.

[Destati]

Yoshida actually addressed. They originally considered doing precisely that but found a lot of players like glamour the individual rings, and thus opted to expand the ring inventory instead.

This. I don't glamour rings very often but there have been plenty of instances where they've helped bring an outfit together and a bunch of them have really cool designs (and I would say the same about belts going off of their thumbnails so it's kind of a shame we never see them in game but oh well). My only complaint with them is when I can't buy two of the same one to round out my ilvl because of their "unique" classification. It's a petty gripe though, so it's not the end of the world.

[CKNovel]

I think it is insanely short sighted of them to keep rings as they are. It does nothing but serve as Armory bloat when each job has to equip TWO of the same item style.

Just adjust the rings to be twice what they are value wise and only need one equipped, or just delete a ring slot for the stat squish.

Rings needs a lot of adjustments, they didn't touched the slot because it was visible on the character.
But it's the most annoying slot of all equipment since you're basically forced to choose a ring you don't like or go with a lower ilvl ring.
There's many solutions:
-Add other rings with high ilvl.
-Allow us to equip twice the same ring.
-Get rid of the slot and just display the same ring on each finger.
-Rework SKS/SPS and some stats. Too much jobs are "all or nothing" SKS/SPS.

[ReynTime]

I don't really care that belts are gonna be removed but when they mentioned the reason I just rolled my eyes.
Yeah, you found a solution to a problem YOU created since 2.0. Good job I guess...

[Jeeqbit]

Yes, 15 of them will be allocated to rings (because you have 2 ring slots on your character but only 1 slot to store them in your armory chest).

The other 15 is going to the weapon.

The remaining 5 are being saved for a rainy day. Soul Crystals come to mind.

[MorionQ]

I consistently glam a momorion ring onto my avatar’s right hand in most of her glams. I love cool rings in general. Plus, we have an actual wedding ring item. Jewelry is a thing people enjoy in almost every culture. We have a job specifically dedicated to making jewelry. They ain’t scrapping rings, but equipped belts being invisible no matter what you gear? We won’t miss them when stats are straightened out.


As for off hand, the devs initially had mages use off hand slots for wand/shield combos at random levels, but dropped it when Leviathan upgrades happened and BIS for both WHM and BLM became super janky with the EX stuff. That’s why there are zero wands in game after level 50. If there is anything I wish the devs could go back and do is allow us to glam a one-handed wand over a staff. But that ship looks to have long since sailed.