Level 99 is (at the moment) the 'final cap' of vertical advancement, so the climb to 'perfection' in gear will be a long path as it was when the 'final cap' was 75. If its handed to us much like it was in Abyssea, there will be no reason to stick around once your gear is complete and perfect. As much as we like to proclaim that's not why we play, having completed gear sets with no real ugprades takes away a lot from the point of the game.
It seems unlikely we'll ever go back to the spawned HNM system due to 95% of the player base detesting it, so we get random-drop Voidwatch and Legion - and that will provide the same rate of upgrade I would assume -- or at least significantly slower than Abyssea was.
Still, there's revamped Salvage, Nyzul, Limbus, and Einherjar to look forward to - who knows what gems they're going to hold for us? I'm hoping for Morrigan's Robe +1, though!
I hope you're wrong. It's the reason I reactivated after a year away. I miss content that is actually worthy of the stamp "MMO", most recent content felt like a 1-4 player co-op RPG


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