Quote Originally Posted by Mioko View Post
Eventually players will find the best gear that will give you the most attack or acc or ws damage combination etc and everyone will flock to getting those pieces of gear
Not necessarily. When creating character you chose race/gender and you chose guardian and birthday too. Gear stats may vary on race, gender, guardian and birthday making "the best possible gear set" different for every char.
And I dont mean every single piece of gear using all those factors to determine stats.

For example body slot gear stats could be linked with your guardian (up to 12 different BEST body parts for the same job), shoes with your race/gender (like 15 different best shoes), Gloves with day of your birth (lets say one item has best stats for those born on 1st - 6th day of the month, other for 7-12, others for 13-18, 19-24, 25-31, and we got 6 different best hands), etc.

Actually they could easily apply that to existing armours.
For example:
Iron Celata - Favors: Hyur, Roegadyn
Iron Celata (Green) - Favors: Miqo'te, Lalafell
Iron Celata (Brown) - Favors: Elezen

Normal stats: HP+36 STR+2
Stats on proper race: HP+50 STR+4.

Of course there should be equivalents for every piece of gear so everyone should be able to reach exactly the same BEST stats no matter what race/gender/guardian you got. Equivalents should be similarly hard to obtain too. And all stats should be visible to players so we could determine weather something suits you, or it does not.