Originally Posted by
Kaelan?
Yeah, I've been having problems with that too. I tried setting one of the LB+Button shortcuts to only mobs aggroing me after having some trouble playing a really crowded FATE (both mob and player-wise) and it didn't really seem to help much. Most of the times it just didn't actually do anything. I'm guessing it's just broken right now.
Actually I think she does have a point there. In XI I definitely had choices to make in building gear. So far, XIV has nothing even as simple as "STR rings vs Sniper Rings". We don't really have any situations where you'll, for example, have some LV20 item with 20 STR but no accuracy, and the next item 3~4 levels away is 5 DEX, 20 accuracy, but no STR; where you'd actually have a reason to use one over the other.
If I wear crafting jewelry, it always has CP as its only stat. Pants/Gloves/Head/Feet always have nothing except Control. Tools/Bodies always have both Craftsmanship and Control, and never have CP. I don't have the choice to sacrifice one stat to stack more of another. It doesn't matter that I think most of the time I could use less Craftsmanship and more Control. I have what I have in whatever the most updated gear set is for my level and I'm stuck with that.
Another thing that's missing is iconic gear pieces that stand out on their own for a particular purpose. If you were playing XI back when you didn't have 43 Lv.99 jobs and 50M gil and you partied with a Lv.40 DD wearing a Peacock Charm and Sniper Rings, you'd go "Holy Shit, this guy's gear!". Or Astral Rings, or Kote, or anything like that. Fuck, even NQ Haubergeon was a luxury item early on. There's nothing like that in XIV now. It's just minor upgrades of the same exact things one after another. There's nothing that makes you go "Wow, this guy has X!".
It's not about having more stats, it's about having a wider variety of specifically focused gear within the stats we already have, rather than every piece always doing the exact same thing. Having a reason to pick A instead of B for any reason other than "it's higher level requirement".