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    Pellegri's Avatar
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    Pellegri Testament
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    Ultros
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    Archer Lv 50
    Quote Originally Posted by Amyas View Post
    You know what else shows you the 'strength' of the gear? The stat numbers. Ilvl may be 'efficient', but its also babying and sad.
    You know how those stat numbers are determined? The ilvl and how it determines the stat "caps" on each piece of gear. To change ilvl would mean to change the stats on every piece of gear or even rebalance everything in the game to make up for the loss of stats everyone will have due to ilvl being lowered.
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    Amyas Leigh
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pellegri View Post
    You know how those stat numbers are determined? The ilvl and how it determines the stat "caps" on each piece of gear. To change ilvl would mean to change the stats on every piece of gear or even rebalance everything in the game to make up for the loss of stats everyone will have due to ilvl being lowered.
    Okay, I suppose I get it a bit more now. I'm not calling for ilvl to removed, or lowered, my first post in this thread was saying 'its too late now'. What I'm saying is it shouldn't have existed in the first place imo.
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    Zahra Dubs
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    Quote Originally Posted by Amyas View Post
    Okay, I suppose I get it a bit more now. I'm not calling for ilvl to removed, or lowered, my first post in this thread was saying 'its too late now'. What I'm saying is it shouldn't have existed in the first place imo.
    As a player, you should never call for a developer to display less information. That's a horrible attitude imo.

    ilvl exists in pretty much every game as a metric the developer uses to determine the strength of each item and the stat budget they can put on it. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean its not there. Its also a large part of this game considering materia assimilation and melding, and ilvl requriements for dungeons (which is good thing!!).

    You can say it shouldnt have been displayed in the first place but in the end if the developer doesnt do it, the players will do it themselves.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Amyas View Post
    What I'm saying is it shouldn't have existed in the first place.
    It's really difficult to manage over a thousand items without a system of accountability. Items level is a proven and reliable system as most developers use it item-intensive games.

    It really kind of blows my mind why this bothers people.
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    Tiraelina Kyara
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wolf_Gang View Post
    It's really difficult to manage over a thousand items without a system of accountability. Items level is a proven and reliable system as most developers use it item-intensive games.

    It really kind of blows my mind why this bothers people.
    Numbers scare people don't you know. Why else would they replace them with utterly useless bars?
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