Why is Myth gear as good as Allagan gear, or even better?

[Marzapan]

I guess I think it's lame that you can get the best gear in the game w/o beating any of the 'hardest' content of the game.

Maybe they should have made CT i90... and made that the alternative armor. Not to say CT is hard...

My 8 year old can earn myth tomes.

[Zaiken]

I guess I think it's lame that you can get the best gear in the game w/o beating any of the 'hardest' content of the game.

Maybe they should have made CT i90... and made that the alternative armor. Not to say CT is hard...

My 8 year old can earn myth tomes.

Allagan Weapon is iLevel 95, Relic +1 is only iLevel 90. Also some Allagan Status is better then Myth Tomb depending on the class.

[Nahara]

I guess I think it's lame that you can get the best gear in the game w/o beating any of the 'hardest' content of the game.

The problem is the RNG. Let's assume you're like me and your luck is utterly abysmal when it comes to gear drops: You could spend several months running the different turns of Coil (because you only get 1 shot a week, which means about 3 attempts per month), hoping to see the piece of gear you need and it never drops. The people whose gear does drop gets to lot on that gear and progress themselves while you're constantly stuck and the mercy of an RNG that hates you.

Myth tome gear is to give people like me an alternate avenue of gear progression. We have utterly shit luck in Coil and can't earn anything new via those drops. So, we get Myth tomes and can spend those on gear that is pretty darn equivalent to the i90 gear that the people who are actually winning Coil drops get.