Please reconsider ilvl 60 drops

[Mitternacht]

I originally expected Pharos to be ilvl 65, assuming it would be a step above AK. But they've made it clear that it's intended to be about the same in terms of difficulty (if maybe a little easier given the comments on being tuned for people in AF). The point of Pharos, HM Copperbell, and HM Manor is variety. They'll likely give the same amount of tomes for give or take the same amount of time to complete. Also there's dungeon sourced housing materials and the new drops will have new looks.

If you're only going to do a value analysis based off of strict item level gained per time spent then I think you're going to always be disappointed with content not added at the top of the pyramid.

[ashikenshin]

I wouldn't mind if it was ilvl70. I have grinded for my darklight but F that! I still have more jobs to finish and don't care where the gear comes from.

have they stated what iLvl is the gear from the HM dungeons?

[Tiggy]

Pharos Sirius and the new hard mode dungeons should drop ilvl 70 items, not ilvl 60.

This would be terrible for the game. The only dungeon people would ever run would be this one. This would serve to give us less variety than we even have now. You could have darklight quality gear in an afternoon of slamming this dungeon as opposed to grinding the tokens, and that won't be good for the game.

[Ri_ri]

I'm a bit disappointed with it, too. I expected level 70 at minimum - play it to get some level 70 gear, fill the rest with Darklight, go do the Crystal Tower.

[Wolf_Gang]

I look at Pharos as just a story dungeon.

Fight something new. Find out what happens with Siren. Then never do it again.

[SynMaris]

Would be nice to see some gear offset DL and such, have a nice mix and match.

[the_vanity]

In the mean time, nobody cares about crafted gear...

[zakalw3]

You guys stating that making it i70 would upset you because you had to grind out your Darklight are missing the fact you'd still have to grind out the new gear.

Anyone with full DL will find this gear obsolete from the start, I guess vanity slots will fix that though.

[WingsofWar]

2.1 Gear Progression...

WP - i55 Dropped (Gear & Weapon)
AK - i60 Dropped (Gear Only)
PS - i60 Dropped (Unknown)
PRIMAL HM - i70 Dropped (Weapon Only)
>----i70 Bought with Phil / Crafted (Gear & Weapon)
>----i80 Relic (Weapon)
CT - i80 Dropped (Gear & unknown if Weapon drops)
PRIMAL EX - i80 Dropped (Weapons Only)
>----i90 bought with myth (Gear & Weapon )
BCoB - i95 Dropped (Gear & Weapon)

I don't see any issues, with the balance of drops. Sure a PS - i65 drop might have been more acceptable, but really its not that big of an issue. Only people who will go bat shit is people who have spent countless hours already farming AK for their i70 and i90 equipment, like myself, but in a greater scheme of things this new content/changes are whats good for the entire playerbase including new players or fresh 50s.

Its likely that PS will drop only i60 weapons.. to match up with the i60 gear set from AK.

IMO I think id have liked to see content spread like this

WP - i55
AK - i60
PS - i65
PRIMAL HM - i70 WEAP
>----i75 Bought with Phil (DL)
>----i80 Relic WEAP
PRIMAL EXT - i80 WEAP
>----i80 Crafted (darsteel/vanya/etc)
CT - i85
>---i90 Bought with Myth
>---i90 Relic +1 WEAP
BCoB - i95

[Kazamoto]

^ Confirmed its only the BCoB weapon getting bumped to 95.

Greetings,

According to the stream, Yoshida did in fact mention this upgrade to item level 95 was to be for Allagan weapons only due to the difficulty of turn 5, whereas the text on the Japanese and English Q&A post indicated equipment in general.