Item Levels

[Alahra]

If you guys are actually concerned about the rate of XP gain, you should probably go back and take a good, hard look at Abyssea and Grounds of Valor.

All this is going to do is make it difficult to complete XP-based Magian Trials, with Augmented Relic pieces suffering the most since Dynamis monsters are already on the lower end of the XP-curve at 99.

There's also the fact that most players learn about gear-swapping eventually, and most players tackling difficult content are expected to do so to perform well. Our effective level will be changing frequently as a result. There's not going to be any real benefit to this system when most of us only wear a few pieces of the newer gear. Older gear is still often optimal for different purposes, and the current design structure of "one size fits all" for new Adoulin gear suggests that this will continue. No Monk (for example) is ever going to wear Manibozho Gloves.

The development team needs to take a step back and think about how we actually play the game and reconcile that with how they seem to *want* us to play the game. There are some stark differences between these two things.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

All this is going to do is make it difficult to complete XP-based Magian Trials

There's no reason to start now.

[Masamune11]

Let's sum this up:

- Best available bayld gear is enough to complete all quests / missions
- Current highest item level is 120
- Item level will surpass level 120

Conclusion: Can we agree that it is highly unlikely that characters currently with the best delve gear would be able to defeat the final story-line boss (likely a couple years away)? I mean, if SE is going this item progression approach, then why would they allow players to be powerful enough to clear the story-line within two months of the expansions release? Thus, future bayld gear will have to be stronger than the best currently available gear. Otherwise we are being told that two years from now, they are going to release this story-line megaboss that is currently weaker than a delve boss.

What does this tell me?: I should sit and wait, not do delve, do daily coalitions tasks, play lots of FFXIV and not worry about endgame events until the story-line has been completed.