I just want to tell you good luck. We're all counting on you.
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Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines
As people have already stated, you have to be i90 to complete the 2.55 story. That aside I would like to point out that Yoshida has said that you will not immediately replace your gear at level 51. ( For the life of me, I cannot find this quote... if someone else can, please post it! :p ) To me, this means, while at 51 we won't replace gear, they will have better gear for leveling at some point along the journey from 50-60. He has also stated that earning the new "AF" gear will be easy but not connected to the new Job quests. I would also personally take this that it will be something we get along the way or at the end of the story/questing to 60.
Personal theory is that ilvl gear will end up being equal to a point of the new leveling gear...personally I could see i130 being around lvl 55. Meanwhile newbies getting through all this for the first time after expansion, instead of needing ilvl 90, will just need to get a few levels over 50 and be geared up for it, say about lvl 52ish or something.
Give or take a certain amount of levels, but I can't see Steps being that much farther lvl wise since there will be whole new areas for them (and us) after it.