[DEV Question] Why is this allowed?

I cant believe people dont see the issue. ITS NOT THE POINT THAT THEY CLEARED.......

Why is it not an issue if there actually is an issue? I dont get this community (and ive been here for a very long time)

Dude is farming light for an ARR relic in the Creator NM...

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Wow. The fact that anyone actually replied and tried to justify this or even suggest it's even okay is genuinely surprising.

The fact of the matter is that you're all babying him because he's a DPS. Had a tank, or rather both tanks, been wearing i110 weapons it would be physically impossible to clear. There is no tank in the world who could keep hate off a DPS who has a proper weapon for lv60 content while they used an i110 weapon. Now I know that people say, "but since they cleared that's okay," that's not okay. Just because a DPS having a low level weapon doesn't mess up the group like a tank does, doesn't mean they shouldn't be just as responsible as a tank would have to be.

Also people acting like the OP is being elitist or having a strict requirement or something. It's i110. You can literally buy an i150 weapon from Azys Lla. It's very clear this was either deliberate or a very unfortunate mistake, but either way, there should be some kind of warning alerting people if a piece of their gear is dramatically lower than the item level requirement.

I mean you can't put restrictions on absolutely everything, some people are just gonna be dumb. Sometimes theres not much you can do except maybe mention it because what if they forgot and didn't realize it? (Forgot to equip a different weapon or something)

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Originally Posted by Llus

This is actually becoming a bigger issue overall as people try to game the min-level requirements in order to spirit bond lower level HQ crafted gear or to cheat the system in order to progress through the story and get a free carry. I used to see people running dungeons spirit bonding crafting gear FFS!

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So I'm cheating the system' if I'm wearing 250 crafted gear in DUNGEONS?

Really?

Ok.

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Originally Posted by Pintsized

So I'm cheating the system' if I'm wearing 250 crafted gear in DUNGEONS?

Really?

Ok.

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"Crafting" gear, not "crafted."

This was a pretty annoying problem in 2.x. Some people would join a dungeon with their entire right side as DoH/DoL gear so they could spiritbond and then break it down for the materia to make money or meld their DoH/DoL.

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Originally Posted by Miste

Okay so I know the DF has rules in place for average item level in order to queue for specific content, but I find what I just saw to be very ridiculous in terms of what the DF will allow players to do.

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I actually have a better system. Because average ilevel is such a shitty system to gear gate content (ilevel has zero correlation to gear strength while people can cheese with RHS pieces not of the main stat or cheaping out on the weapon). I propose they have an AP/mAP requirement for all classes for all dungeons. That way, you have to truly be at the specific gear level intended for that content and it is also un-cheesable.

Did yall clear?

I would suggest a change to absolute minimum ilvl instead of the actual minimum average ilvl.
But the idea for AP/mAP/HealingPower would be nice too.

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Originally Posted by Miste

Now it is possible he switched weapons inside the content, but this also should not be allowed...so maybe something can be done for the future.

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No, that will just cause more of this kind of thing. I've often hurriedly joined in the wrong gearset and changed while I cast buffs. Please don't lock this.

I assume it was an accident (and one a lot of people have made once). If it was on purpose, it's definitely bad behaviour.