Raise your item level to 119 by completing a tutorial quest!

[Pixela]

It's part of the game, the gear is growing so I think what most people--myself at least--are asking for is that increase be properly reflected.

This is an MMO, gear will never stop improving, that's fine. It's ridiculous that the number is the same when the gear is not remotely close to the same.

At 75, it was a different story. The gear was only level 75. Level cap, big deal. 99 is still level-cap, ilvl artificially inflates our level. Sticking to 119 causes players to believe that their Skirmish II gear is on par with Ru'Aun/Reisenjima gear and then they can't understand why the other melee has 200 more accuracy.

Boost the lower grade 119 gear then right? '-' Much more accuracy and magic accuracy for all the weaker 119 gear, I agree with you!

[OmnysValefor]

Boost the lower grade 119 gear then right? '-' Much more accuracy and magic accuracy for all the weaker 119 gear, I agree with you!

lol no. Raise the ilvl on gear that obviously is better gear.

Ambuscade NQ gear, which is easily obtainable for anyone should be higher than 119, Ambuscade +1 should be higher than NQ.

Partial abandonment of a system is a disaster.

[Pixela]

lol no. Raise the ilvl on gear that obviously is better gear.

Ambuscade NQ gear, which is easily obtainable for anyone should be higher than 119, Ambuscade +1 should be higher than NQ.

Partial abandonment of a system is a disaster.

So basically it's just about your epeen, gotcha.

Are people keeping in mind that changing Item level would break the game now? This isn't just about stats on the weapon, average item level is effectively your characters actual level. When you put Ilevel gear on your are increasing your level from 99 to whatever your average item level says. Go put full sparks gear on, check some monsters in Escha and then swap to 119 gear and check them again to see your level change in comparison to them. Changing from sparks to any 119 set instantly gains you what amounts to 2 character levels.

If they increased max item level to 129 that would effectively make you level 129 and all notorious monsters would instantly become even match or easy prey, all xp rates would drop to almost nothing.

[OmnysValefor]

So basically it's just about your epeen, gotcha.

Geez, it's not.

I'm glad Ambuscade is available to anyone with the time. The difficulty/reward ratio can work for everyone, even people in sparks gear.

What I'm saying is that it's stupid that Ambuscade is the same ilvl as Delve when it's FAR SUPERIOR.

The current design leads people into thinking that their delve and skirmish gear has them ready for the toughest stuff in the game. "We're both 119!"

If they increased max item level to 129 that would effectively make you level 129 and all notorious monsters would instantly become even match or easy prey, all xp rates would drop to almost nothing.

I'm not sure that that's true. Weapon ilvl would affect bst pets and trusts, but we'd still have the same accuracy, magic evasion, mnd, int, str, all that stuff. I don't see changing ilvl (and only ilvl, no other stat) as making the fights any easier, except where trusts and bst pets are concerned and both of those could be solved.

Half-abandoned system is worse than commitment or full abandonment.

[Pixela]

I'm not sure that that's true. .

Go into Escha Ru'aun and check monsters with no gear, then full sparks gear, then full 119 gear. You'll see the monsters check level change based on what ilevel gear you have on (which effectively means you level up or down based on your average item level), they will also give less XP as your ilevel increases.

When you see someone in full sparks gear they are level 117, when you are in 119 gear you are 2 levels higher than them.

[Catmato]

I'm not sure that that's true.

It isn't. Average item level has no effects besides trusts and exp rates.