Prepare yourself! Or… well, at least keep an open mind to this being a reality in the future. Maybe this can help keep around a character or two, or, let you play around with a weird build in hopes that someday it just might work lol
It appears that someday we may finally see equipment that offers more than the paltry +4 STR, or +21 Holy Damage etc etc. Maybe, when that time comes, we’ll have more to pick from in terms of equipment instead of basing our selection off of which item has a slightly higher base PATK/MATK value, or which item has one additional socket. Equipment has been long complained about in regards to how utterly boring it is. There is no flavor in your equipment outside of a very few unique items that actually do have a mechanic that lets you play around a little (Toy Hammer, Animus, etc).
We may, in time, get items that give the player certain skills. I find this exciting, do you? What happens if one of those skills is at least a somewhat decent AOE attack? Why, then, you open up twenty++ class combinations that may not have been too viable but, suddenly, they can shine if built around that item. Depending on the skills there could be some nice builds popping up to sport the new skill combination to its utmost.
Some day maybe they’ll play around with adding skills to weapons and more as well. For now it appears they are only testing on accessories but we could very well finally see some truly unique items being worked on.
I can’t wait to see the builds that can be created at LV600 with a full arsenal of interesting equipment picks.