2.5 and Poetics...

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Originally Posted by Deathscythe343

I expect the staring gear for the expansion to be on par with poetics or slightly better. This is also why I think that the WoD loot lockout will be removed prior to the expansion. This would give all players the ability to get i120 gear for as many jobs as they would like in preparation for this.

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When you refer poetic gear are you referring to pre upgrade or post upgrade?
Also with WoD more then likely rewarding i120 gear and dropping the items needed to upgrade poetic gear to i130, I can't see them breaking the pattern they've been following since 2.0 came out.

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Originally Posted by Allard

Wait, will there be a 2.6?

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There wont be a 2.6 but 3.0 will be a fresh even start, on even updates so far coils and CT raids switch to uncap and every other even patch new tome gear is introduced along with new crafted gear.

exept you are forgeting the main goal of Yoshida, make sure a maximum of people have done the content they have added soo far. people will not really come back to BC2-3 when Heavenward will be out, then the best way (without add echo) is to take out the lock out, since anyway, at best 1-2 month after the part 2 the expansion will be out.

just a reminder, heavenward is still announced for spring 2015, meaning before june. with the part 2 out at the end of march, it leave 2 month.

Maybe 2.55 to keep the content going until the expansion, but not at 2.5, no.

@silentwindfr
Given that Yoshida expressed regret that the first coil gear wasnt i95 to give players intensive to choose doing coil over farming for the i90 myth gear at that time I don't think Yoshi and Co. are gonna make final coil gear obsolete when 3.0 hits the ground running and second coil came out in 2.2 which came out 3/26/2014 and i'm seeing more players do it now that its unlocked then when it was locked, I think final coil will have similar results. Just because 3.0 is adding 10 levels doesnt mean players are gonna be able to hit that content naked. You're still gonna need those stepping stones called item levels.

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Originally Posted by ArkNova

When you refer poetic gear are you referring to pre upgrade or post upgrade?

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Pre upgrade. While I suspect that many people will farm the crap out of WoD and poetics if they are both removed from their perspective lockouts, I dont see many people getting multiple full sets of poetics gear and then farming up every upgrade token they would need to make the gear i130.

If WoD has its loot lockout removed prior to the expansion, which seems likely, Im betting that most people get the WoD gear for their alts and use the upgrade tokens for the first and second highest played jobs.

If poetics gear has its cap removed, the costs will likely remain the same which would deter some from gathering multiple full sets. But I am sure that some will try.

It seems more likely, at least to me that if this happens people will use the unlimited loot from WoD to gather gear and then use their poetics to buy the accessories for their jobs.

Also, I should note that I don't think that things like this would happen prior to patch 2.55. This way it would only give players a limited amount of time before the expansion comes out.

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Originally Posted by Deathscythe343

No one is going to run a level 50 raid to gear their level 60 job.

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Like nobody do low level dungeons and FATEs to get a ilevel 125 weapon? ^^
If the reward is right, people would do old content

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Originally Posted by silentwindfr

exept you are forgeting the main goal of Yoshida, make sure a maximum of people have done the content they have added soo far. people will not really come back to BC2-3 when Heavenward will be out, then the best way (without add echo) is to take out the lock out, since anyway, at best 1-2 month after the part 2 the expansion will be out.

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Then also nerf coil 11-13 to the ground during 2.5

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Originally Posted by Felis

Like nobody do low level dungeons and FATEs to get a ilevel 125 weapon? ^^
If the reward is right, people would do old content

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Not really a good comparison. The relic upgrade quests reward players with a currently viable item. Running a raid that is 10 levels lower than the player does not provide that player with a suitable reward. You said it yourself. If the level 50 raids gave people level 60 gear then this would be different.

Also, the relic quest is an entirely different subject.

I doubt they'll remove the cap, but I imagine the sol and poe given by various activities will probably be increased(well, sol at least, maybe not poe so much).

We will most likely just get a Max Cap increase for Poetics.

Removal of Weekly Limit normally arrives on every Even Number Update which the next one won't be until 3.0.

Seeing ct3 coming out in a few weeks the cap for poets will stay probably until March. There wouldn't be much of a point adding ct3 if weekly cap is remove. But expansion being round the corner I wouldn't mind removing cap from 2.5