Belts being gone and their slots' allocation

[Raikai]

So, I'm kinda happy for this change. I feel that belts are the least exciting piece to get due to the lack of visuals and I'm happy with their stat budget being diluted across the other items.

I'm not mistaken, they mentioned that the "free" belt armory slots are going to be redistributed through the accessories. I kinda feel that's a little... misplaced? We don't usually end with more accessories than other items, in general, because a lot of things are shared between jobs in the same group... And accessories even between different armor groups.

However, the weapons... I've always struggled with armory space there, because you literally have to roll with at least one weapon per job you have. It's 29 if you have every job unlocked, that's almost all of the capacity.

In short, I feel that the spare slots from the belts being cut would be so much more useful if allocated to the Weapons section. Any thoughts?

Edit: confirmed that some of the slots are going to weapons. I'd rather have - all - of them there, but hey, at least better than nothing!

[TheMightyMollusk]

I can't find it right now, but I believe it was stated that some of the slots are going to weapons, some are going to rings, and a few are being held in reserve for later use.

[ItMe]

I'm not mistaken, they mentioned that the "free" belt armory slots are going to be redistributed through the accessories.

You are mistaken.
The slots are going to weapons and rings (not all accessories, just rings) with a few of the slots being saved for a rainy day.

[RyuDragnier]

I can't find it right now, but I believe it was stated that some of the slots are going to weapons, some are going to rings, and a few are being held in reserve for later use.

This. We're getting more ring and weapon slots, both of which were VASTLY needed just due to how many jobs keep getting added, and because you need 2 rings for the ring slots, which add up really quickly when leveling.

• For weapons, that's 31 slots due to 20 battle jobs (18 currently), 3 gathering jobs, and 8 crafters.
• Helm/Chest/Arms/Legs/Feet is divided between Fending/Healing/Casting/Aiming/Scouting/Maiming/Striking/Crafting/Gathering with BLU always behind, so that's 10 slots taken up for those.
• Accessories are Fending/Healing/Casting/Aiming/Slaying/Gathering/Crafting, with NIN sharing Aiming with the physical ranged, and all other melee sharing Slaying. That's 8 accessories taking BLU into account.
• Rings however are DOUBLE the amount of space of other accessories due to equipping 2 of them, so that's 16 slots taken up for Rings by default.
• Adding all this up when gearing up and holding onto new gear when leveling jobs, and only weapons and rings are in danger of being overfilled while leveling/gearing. This is taking into account if you just work on one group of jobs that use the same gear type at a time.

[Raikai]

You are mistaken.
The slots are going to weapons and rings (not all accessories, just rings) with a few of the slots being saved for a rainy day.

Oh okay, thanks for the heads up! Thought it was just for the rings.

[Deceptus]

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.

[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...

[ForteNightshade]

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.

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.

[ItMe]

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.

I am one of such people and am happy I'll be able to glam both of my hands and glam the rings separately.
For example some rings look better on a finger wrapped around the trigger (MCH) and some rings look better on the offhand.
Most classes are right handed, but some are left handed (DRG) so it is useful that if I only wanna wear one ring I can move it between hands as I wish.
Also, some gloves are asymmetrical so being able to choose which ring I want to glam on which hand is very helpful there to.
Etc.

[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.