Quote Originally Posted by Dannythm View Post
Will melds and the level of the materia add to the gear score? Also to do garuda comfortably certain gear requirements are needed, so all in all i's just an extra layer of info, the problems can come as how the community will use that info.
If it works normally, then yeah. An item would have a base score (value) and it would rise slightly with each meld.

As for the gear score and how I feel, meh. My first exposure to it was in TERA. I never played WoW but I know it was a big deal there. It was normally not a HUGE issue in TERA, but there were absolutely people who would kick you from a party if it was egregiously low.

That bothers me some, but lets face it, everyone knows that feel when you saw a bard show up in XI wearing next to nothing. I don't see how a gear score would REALLY change that a whole lot, but if they made it so certain dungeons and instances has "score checks" I would not mind too much. It will force people to make sure they take some time to craft / farm / meld there way to gear requirements that will overall attribute to a higher chance of succeeding as a party for the objective.