Hey everyone!

Wanted to start this thread to hear people's thoughts on sanction-ready gear. Most of the gear seems fairly average without the sanction bonus applied, but once you have a sanction, the gear really powers up. I love the approach to this design and think it's really refreshing.

The one aspect that did surprise me, however, was that the sanction wears off upon death. Especially since it was not mentioned anywhere in the patch notes:

“Sanction" is the name given to a process of gear enhancement which involves the casting of any one of a range of enhancing spells on equipment specially crafted to harbor enchantments. The sanction status can be received at the headquarters of each Grand Company, and for the duration of its effect (three hours Earth time) grants a bonus to the efficacy of certain gear. Such gear can be identified by viewing their help text.

After spending 17,000 GC seals to get this gear (three promotions and the item itself) such a fragile bonus hardly seems worth it? Unless, of course, you're in an LS where you never die, ever, the use of this gear now seems severely limiting. Perhaps they were meant to be "too good to be true".

Any thoughts? I'd love to even hear the dev rationale for why it was designed this way. It just seems like such a waste after so many seals.