new items are counter productive?

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Some of you guys will just eat up any shit that SE produces with a smile, It's unbelievable.

Hard to get excited about new patch gear when I cant equip it without giving up all of my War Exclusive abilities/stat bonuses/entire AF set (no thanks), and garuda weapons look disappointing to boot.

I've been loving the progress on FFXIV lately but I feel like the items in this patch are entirely lackluster. I don't even want to work towards any of the new items.

Dear SE,

Please 86 any form of Variety you wish to put in the game.

Your truely,

Butthurt Tarutar


Seriously though, how else do you expect them to differenciate between job and class if not by doing things like this. THe way you speak, I should level a class to 30, get a job, and put on my AF gear and never take it off again. Why even bother having classes then, right? Why not just throw classes and jobs together into one hodgepodge of a mess where the line is so blurred you can't tell where one ends and the other begins? Not only could we then have the devs waste time AND rescources, but then it would be even easier for them to not piss off people that have no desire for variety. I understand that it seems like theres no point to them doing this right now, but I am assuming they have a long term plan for the actions they are taking now, and that this sort of equipment is just a small part of that larger plan. Just an assumption though, you could be right, this could have been some nut jobs last minute idea that slipped under the radar and made its way into the game with no real intention behind it. Oh wait!, they already said that it takes them 6 months to design and put new equipment into the game. Pretty sure they know where they are going with this even though you may not. Nothing to do but wait and see I guess.