servers way more empty now? Still doing the linear gear climb?

[saevel]

Umm this game's always been vertical, all MMO's are. At level 75 you were not using a Bee Spatha. At level 90 you were not using a level 75 weapon. Level 90~99 things leveled out a bit as Tanaka tried to reverse the gear progression from Abyssea but there was still progression from voidwatch, magian and legion. Now we are level 119 (effective) and are using level 103~119 gear.

The only issue is that SE released level 119 gear too fast, they did 20 levels of gear progression in a matter of months. They should of been much slower about it, 103 then 105, 107, 110, 113, 115, 117 and eventually 119 sometime next year. I wouldn't expect a level 119 person to wield a level 99 weapon for the same reason I wouldn't expect a level 99 person to wield a level 75 weapon.

[leorez]

Umm this game's always been vertical, all MMO's are. At level 75 you were not using a Bee Spatha. At level 90 you were not using a level 75 weapon. Level 90~99 things leveled out a bit as Tanaka tried to reverse the gear progression from Abyssea but there was still progression from voidwatch, magian and legion. Now we are level 119 (effective) and are using level 103~119 gear.

The only issue is that SE released level 119 gear too fast, they did 20 levels of gear progression in a matter of months. They should of been much slower about it, 103 then 105, 107, 110, 113, 115, 117 and eventually 119 sometime next year. I wouldn't expect a level 119 person to wield a level 99 weapon for the same reason I wouldn't expect a level 99 person to wield a level 75 weapon.

like demon said below me, it spent more time horizontal content wise than ever vertical, now even at 99 cap they are continuing the stupid vertical climb with this dumb ilevel crap. Not only is it keeping going instead of going back to how it was at 75 cap where it goes back to horizontal, its doing the fastest vertical its ever done, within a month or 2 when everything you got was suddenly crap, especially with weapons.

People dont want this vertical climb anymore and want it to go back to how 75 cap was. Lots of endgame to be viable and not just turn it into this climb to do a single event. Ilevel was basically garbage they pulled over from FFXIV and if we wanted to do that junk, we could play XIV and not this.

[predatory]

like demon said below me, it spent more time horizontal content wise than ever vertical, now even at 99 cap they are continuing the stupid vertical climb with this dumb ilevel crap. Not only is it keeping going instead of going back to how it was at 75 cap where it goes back to horizontal, its doing the fastest vertical its ever done, within a month or 2 when everything you got was suddenly crap, especially with weapons.

People dont want this vertical climb anymore and want it to go back to how 75 cap was. Lots of endgame to be viable and not just turn it into this climb to do a single event. Ilevel was basically garbage they pulled over from FFXIV and if we wanted to do that junk, we could play XIV and not this.

IMO if they want to keep this ilevel crap, fine, just side grade every other part of the game, so it all becomes relevant again