Gear level, the final nail in the games coffin.

[Jahaudant]

XIV Community pre-release:
"God no please don't add duty finder."

After release:
"Wtf, don't you dare prevent me from using duty finder!"

[WhiteGarden]

Let's be honest, gear score/check is only necessary because of the duty finder.

Its all downhill from here.

[Hawklaser]

Realistically, odds are what is happening is people are queuing for multiple level 50 dungeons without any knowledge of their being a difference between them.

I don't like being carried through events, I like being a contributing member. However I don't like strict gear requirements to even be able attempt to participate in content. As I said before though, I can see the use of using said things to help make sure people have a chance to complete the content.

Find it funny how so many have been going off on the accessory slots of people, when those are likely going to have the least amount of impact on how well someone will do. Personally, before I would do end game events I would make sure I had good gear for it, however I am going to spend more time and gil on making sure the more impactful slots like weapon and armors are top notch than the accessories. Unless you can prove an extra +1 or 2 in a few stats will absolutely make or break a run, I am not likely to bend over backwards for very marginal improvements. I would still go for them but they are not a priority.

[Iskander]

Someone is complaining that the Gear Level thing will destroy the game? Uh no, since it is already there without it being there. Mor Dhona on Leviathan. "LFM For HM (Garuda or Titan usually). MUST Have iLVL 70, Garuda Weap or Relic, (sometimes Full DL req is in here too)." People already know what the suitable iLvl is for endgame content, and already demand that you die PUGs to be get what you need, learn everything from a bunch of deaths, and have everything to be able to play with them. This gear level feature just officializes (sp) it.

[Kyp]

This is very necessary, we carried an offtank thru garuda HM, he was still in lvl 45 class gear with low level pink jewelry, failed to tank the adds causing a lot of stress on our healer, and at the end, the pally sword drops... and he wins it.... (nerdrage ensued with the entire group lol)

[Dixa]

doing asmuch DPS as the tank.

based on what 100% accurate damage parsing method, exactly?

[neizero]

So a bunch of people are crying because they want to be carried by the players who actually put some effort in updating their gear. Cry me a river and bring on gearscore gating to content!!

[Dixa]

I believe it is there to avoid stupid ppl who fate grind lvl 5 - 50 without doing dungeon, leves (treasure coffer) and story mode. It is good in some ways.

you can't do ak without finishing the story.

[Jinko]

I'm fine with ilvl requirements for things that have HARSH gear checks, like everything in this game past ifrit, but I think a better solution would have been completely removing these difficult encounters(you're never going to PUG titan, why even have it in duty finder?, and two tanks? really?)from the duty finder and forcing everyone to form communtiies, find a FC, and make a static for end game content.

You should be able to duty finder your way to 50, but end game content should require actual social skills, teamwork, and friends to get stuff done.

Well if you think about it, having a gearscore/check (call it what you will) will weed out some of those crappy players, one because they can't be bothered to farm for gear and the other because if you can't do AK multiple times you can't get the ilvl 60 to do Garuda and Titan.

Hopefully they will fix the latency/lag issues concerning Titan HM later down the road /eyeroll

Let's be honest, gear score/check is only necessary because of the duty finder.

Its all downhill from here.

I don't think it is, you can pick up badly geared players on your own server just as you can in the duty finder.

At least with Duty Finder you know people are actually doing dungeons and obtaining gear in the process, it says nothing for skill of course but there is no way to measure skill until its too late :P

[Elendil_Voronda]

Well, the thing is Endgame has many DPS checks.

Demon Wall in AK is one of the firsts you will encounter. and its a race. I've been grouped by DF with dragoons using iLvl 44 weapons. And my friend that simply makes it impossible to pass the wall.

The game encourages you to improve your gear to beat the next step.

The baseline gear for Andapoor Keep would be AF and Grand Company Lieutenant Weapons. also don't Neglect accessories, wear the best crafted rings with melds. This will allow you to pass AK and even farm the gear there Wich is iLevel 60 and beats AF.

Sith AF you can also do Ifrit hard and farm the weapons wich are iLevel 60 as well.

Then with Ilevel 60 Gear you should tackle Garuda Hard wich is another DPS check. If you lack the stats to pass the DPS check then simply it will be impossible to beat Garuda.

Then comes Titan. Another big DPS check and also a very demanding fight for healers.

In our FC we are at that step right now, but we all agree that the DPS check is the highest so far, and also the healers must have great healing power as well.

So, right now we are all farming tome to complete our Darklight pieces, improve our jewelry and so. to Try again next Weekend. But dont blame groups that demand a well geared player for those fights, cause is simply needed. Instead of trying to rush to Titan, enjoy your game, farm the previous content for gear, and allways try to have the best in slot possible at the content you are doing. Its simply like all RPGs Online or Offline are made.