Whats the point of getting better Gear?

If the game is going to level Sync you in EVERY CONTENT IN GAME!? Dungeons, Trails, OC... ETC... Can we feel powerful for once for working "hard" on getting BIS gear???

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You are not synced in the following content:
- Max level trials.
- Max level extremes.
- Max level alliance raids.
- Max level normal raids.
- Max level savage raids.
- The latest expert dungeon or two.
- Max level maps outside, often inside too.
- Last zone's FATEs.
- Hunts.

You are only synced, mostly, if your hobby is doing roulettes that throw you into sub-100 content. If you avoid that, your gear mostly does affect how much you destroy enemies.

Granted, a lot of people see old roulettes as their main content, but if you're really burned out by the concept, you can mostly solve it by avoiding sub-100 roulettes.

BIS is there so you can clear savage faster

Gear would be a lot more useful if the main zones of the game had content in them. XIV really needs some kind of core gameplay in the open-world to tie the various content islands together.

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Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

You are not synced in the following content:
- Max level trials.
- Max level extremes.
- Max level alliance raids.
- Max level normal raids.
- Max level savage raids.
- The latest expert dungeon or two.
- Max level maps outside, often inside too.
- Last zone's FATEs.
- Hunts.

You are only synced, mostly, if your hobby is doing roulettes that throw you into sub-100 content. If you avoid that, your gear mostly does affect how much you destroy enemies.

Granted, a lot of people see old roulettes as their main content, but if you're really burned out by the concept, you can mostly solve it by avoiding sub-100 roulettes.

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One other thing is that gear has a max for each stat, so for example, item level 100 may have a max stat of 10 for secondary stats like crit and determination, but the stats of ilvl 100 gear may only have 7 det and 10 dh. If you bring gear in that sync down that has higher than those max stats, BOTH stats will be max (10dh/10det). So even in lower level content you DO get an advantage

Gear in this game is pointless, so are the stats, it's just another system they blindly copied over from WoW without really understanding the whys. Meh, sounds like japanese doing what japanese do best.

your bait is so low quality its boring

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Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

You are not synced in the following content:
- Max level trials.
- Max level extremes.
- Max level alliance raids.
- Max level normal raids.
- Max level savage raids.
- The latest expert dungeon or two.
- Max level maps outside, often inside too.
- Last zone's FATEs.
- Hunts.

You are only synced, mostly, if your hobby is doing roulettes that throw you into sub-100 content. If you avoid that, your gear mostly does affect how much you destroy enemies.

Granted, a lot of people see old roulettes as their main content, but if you're really burned out by the concept, you can mostly solve it by avoiding sub-100 roulettes.

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This is the best Answer, it may be pointless for older Content but even then there is a huge benefits of Gear with the way how Sync works in FFXIV, but overall you get the best Gear to farm the up 2 date content faster and gives you the option for more fails without worrying about the dps check

I for one solo 8 player treasure maps and dungeons. And man, do I feel gear upgrades.

When grouping with others, your own equip may or may not make a difference:

• get into a trial with bad equip but 7 other players in BIS, and you will clear it fast;
• later get into the same trial with BIS equip but 7 other players in mere rags, and it will take ages to clear.

But when soloing group content, the only factor is you. And every change is notable.

1) People asking for more difficult content.
2) People also asking for overgear to be more significant.

Go figure.

Current expansion level cap instanced content (dungeons, trials, raids) don't sync you, so unless you're in a party that wants min ilvl: the better the gear, the easier the fight you're about to take on! :)

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Originally Posted by Valence

1) People asking for more difficult content.
2) People also asking for overgear to be more significant.

Go figure.

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And its three different groups really. Group A wants overgearing and unsynching to trivalize hard content. Group B wants more difficult content but doesn't want unsynching. Group C wants overgearing, unsynching, and difficult content.

When you're not doing high end content isn't fun not to be on the gear treadmill!
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Originally Posted by BedtimeBear

When you're not doing high end content isn't fun not to be on the gear treadmill!

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Don't pretend like this is an issue. If you aren't raiding you can't even realistically be on a gear treadmill. We also only get upgrades to gear ever 9 months. This is a non-issue.

None. Buy your crafted gear and you are set until they release the next Raid Tier. You welcome.