Please unify the right.

[Elizasylen]

Problem: The biggest complaint of the patch has been the inability to reasonably gain raid level gear for alt jobs in a reasonable amount of time.

Context: Due to a number of variables that includes Player Attrition, Lost of interest, and increased difficulty. There is an overwhelming lack of healer availability for recruitment in Party Finder. YoshiP's proposed during the 14 hour livestream that it would be good if more players tried healer. Many players complained it would be unreasonable to switch jobs due to the inaccessibility of gear in the middle of progression content. The main issue being restrictive time gating of both Savage drops and more importantly tomestone gear.

Proposal: I recommend the unification of the accessories so they can be shared across all jobs. Removing the fending healing casting striking maiming and aiming affixes on all accessories and just make one of each type i.e. Lunar Envoy, Abyssos, Purgatory etc.
Accessories will have all the necessary Main Stats to accommodate all DoW and DoM jobs and applies the appropriate stats as the appropriate job (Pre-order Bonus Earring effect) . The split of Skill Speed and Spell Speed is handled by merging it into the "Haste" Stat.

Aim: Increase the versatility of the individual player.
Although FFXIV Market itself as a game that you can play every role on 1 character, in practice it is difficult, as one role will be far more ahead in gear than the other roles.
Requesting players to procure and pentameld a second set to fulfill PF vacuum is unreasonable and prohibitively expensive. Also iLvl 610 is no longer seen as acceptable in current PF groups, iLvl612 thru 615 is generally demanded even in P5S

Why this is a good idea.
1. There is a precedence, every expansion we receive an universal earring that works on all jobs, So we know it can be done.
2. Relieves pressure on switching jobs and roles. Since you only have to worry about the left side gear.
3. Relieves inventory and data. Inventory can be redistributed to the left.

Left side should be left alone for customizations job identifying and glamour reasons


Conclusion: Players that would swap to healing mid tier would already have half of the work done for them and would only need to procure left side equipment reducing stress on the individual player and making healing role more accessible.

[PirateRyanG]

Nah. People shouldn't be given gear easily. If you aren't willing to work for it, you shouldn't get it.

[UkcsAlias]

Nah. People shouldn't be given gear easily. If you aren't willing to work for it, you shouldn't get it.

Timegating is not working.

[PirateRyanG]

Timegating is not working.

Of course it is. It is rewarding those who dedicate themselves to their job.

[Elizasylen]

Of course it is. It is rewarding those who dedicate themselves to their job.

This game advertised on the fact you can multi role on a single character. And during the healers drought YoshiP literally said go play healer. And we went with what gear.

and how do you intend to make the first fight of the tier relevant after the first few weeks, since it is there precisely to drop accessories? That would make everyone do this fight until they got the accessories 1x, and never come back.

By making all raid accessories BiS. And only need to fill it with a Tomestone Ring.

No thanks, the game's gear barely matters as is and your solution to this is to make the entire right half homogenous. I'm sure that'll make things more exciting than they already are. /s

People already just find the highest iLvl piece with crit dt det and jam more of it. This literally changes nothing.

[Adamantini]

just put a punishing mechanic where if one person fails the whole group fails, it's not like they have done that with Erichtonius and Proto-carbuncle, right?

By making all raid accessories BiS. And only need to fill it with a Tomestone Ring.

Both cases would not solve the problem. People who are good at the endgame would spend the first few weeks gearing up, and wouldn't go back for the first fight because there would be no point, leaving behind the unlucky who couldn't clear or acquire the accessories in the first few weeks.

[Midareyukki]

Of course it is. It is rewarding those who dedicate themselves to their job.

I thought it rewarded those who stayed subbed every week for it? Not really to express dedication to one's favourite class. Plus, not everyone who raids is on their favourite class anyway, some take on other jobs and roles out of necessity.

[Shurrikhan]

Timegating is not working.

Of course it is. It is rewarding those who dedicate themselves to their job.

So, it "works" in that it reduces any expectation to play multiple jobs by restricting one's ability to do so... in a game that presents as an iconic feature the ability to play all jobs on one character.

...Hrmm.

Time-gating, moreover, has only ever been relevant to one's first/progression job, and only when that gear comes from rewards that are gated by time (weekly currency, weekly lockouts). Everything beyond that isn't time-gated, but merely grind-gated. You are solely asking for multi-jobbing to be as locked behind grinds as possible despite the gear in question, mere accessories, typically sharing the very same appearances that being able to use any accessory on any job would actually allow for greater stat choice and thereby differentiation. It would even increase the value of running such content for single-job-players.

[Elizasylen]

Nah. People shouldn't be given gear easily. If you aren't willing to work for it, you shouldn't get it.

They still need to earn the gear. It’s just their other jobs can also use the gear they earned.

[Ivtrix]

Nah. People shouldn't be given gear easily. If you aren't willing to work for it, you shouldn't get it.

Gear is already exceptionally easy to obtain what do you mean

It’s the timegating that is the issue