possible oversight with the new ilvl system?

[Jeryhn]

Look, here's the thing. Before, that warrior could go to the AH or do relatively easy events to get to say 20% haste and still hit the same X hit build. He could probably come within 10% or 15% accuracy of the best war if he tried. He probably took exactly the same amount of damage as the best war unless dude had a d ring.

But if it was two jobs that were 10-15 levels apart lol... not even a chance.

I'm... not sure what point you're trying to make. Unless you're agreeing with me or something.

For Adooulin-related content, the tiering goes like this:
1) Do Colonization/Lair Reives and Adoulin assignemnts for Bayld, use Bayld to buy +67 skill weapons and Orvail/Thurandaut/Karieyh sets. Difficulty is roughly equivalent to Campaign battles or completing quests. Alternatively, do Skirmishes for +51 skill weapons. Difficulty is roughly equivalent to Assault battles. (This section counts as your easy tasks you can complete.)
2) Join Tier 1 Wildskeeper Reives with your extra Bayld after acquiring necessities. Also drops +67 skill weapons.
3) Now you have access to host Tier 1 Delve runs. Farm Plasm for +162 skill weapons and Bokwus/Mikinaak/Manibozho sets. Difficulty roughly equivalent to forming a Voidwatch alliance (with a little more necessary coordination). You can also kill new Tier 2 Naakuals for +188 skill weapons.
4) Kill current Delve bosses for +242 skill gear.

As you can see, there is a predefined path to doing things, that go from easy things you can complete solo, to small- or full-man party, to content that eventually leads up to alliance-level coordination.

[FrankReynolds]

I'm... not sure what point you're trying to make. Unless you're agreeing with me or something.

You said gear has always been the main means of progression and used (I'm assuming a 75) Warrior as an example (completely ignoring that back when leveling / meriting took months / years, it was a far more important / tangible form of progression than the meager stats on the gear). I simply pointed out why the current form of gear progression is actually not very similar at all.

[Hayward]

I'm... not sure what point you're trying to make. Unless you're agreeing with me or something.

For Adooulin-related content, the tiering goes like this:
1) Do Colonization/Lair Reives and Adoulin assignemnts for Bayld, use Bayld to buy +67 skill weapons and Orvail/Thurandaut/Karieyh sets. Difficulty is roughly equivalent to Campaign battles or completing quests. Alternatively, do Skirmishes for +51 skill weapons. Difficulty is roughly equivalent to Assault battles. (This section counts as your easy tasks you can complete.)
2) Join Tier 1 Wildskeeper Reives with your extra Bayld after acquiring necessities. Also drops +67 skill weapons.
3) Now you have access to host Tier 1 Delve runs. Farm Plasm for +162 skill weapons and Bokwus/Mikinaak/Manibozho sets. Difficulty roughly equivalent to forming a Voidwatch alliance (with a little more necessary coordination). You can also kill new Tier 2 Naakuals for +188 skill weapons.
4) Kill current Delve bosses for +242 skill gear.

As you can see, there is a predefined path to doing things, that go from easy things you can complete solo, to small- or full-man party, to content that eventually leads up to alliance-level coordination.

Those steps would have been valid had Wildskeeper Reives and Skirmishes been allowed to take root and/or Delve restricted to possessing the gear you mentioned. What's happening now is that people are paying gil to skip steps 2 and (oftentimes) 3 and get the Delve weapons. I'm sure you've seen the /yells yourself that people only want DPS jobs with Delve weapons to do Delve. Explain the logic in that because there's no way that should be remotely justifiable.