CT Part 2 and gear - will it just be i100 at this point?

[joshsecret]

All these complicated WoW-style drop politics... back in my day when you beat a raid boss, all of its loot dropped onto the ground and had to be manually picked up! And you were competing with 95-200 people for 10-15 drops on a loot table where your item had, if you were lucky, a 1-5% chance of dropping! No need this, greed that, or rolling.

You also probably spent 3-4 hours camping for the boss spawn, then another hour or more PvPing another alliance of 95-200 people for the right to face the boss. If you were lucky, you didn't die so many times as to lose a level, and you didn't drop any of your gear. You might have also got a couple of honorable PKs in and caused an enemy to lose a valuable weapon that you happily took possession of.

:P

your game experience sounds tedious and off-putting for anyone with a life. im sorry you had to go through such things before you saw the light! tgiff14!

[Quiz]

Probably not, why would anyone care about Sand/Oils if the normal drops are i110?

Itemization

[blowfin]

Itemization

There are already 2 gear sets at i110, I don't see what benefit more choice is going to give us besides pointless busywork to shuffle around secondary stats, and I would argue that that's not really beneficial. Besides that, there's no way that we're going to get i110 armor drops coming from content that's supposed to be easier than coil, unless of course they bump up the iLvl of coil2 drops, but that's a dangerous precedent to set.

[StudReaver]

Hopefully it's i100 at least. Some of the weathered gear pieces have horrible stats on them (looking at you, suit of Astrum mail) and a decent alternative to spending millions on crafted gear and materia to us folks that won't be getting into SCoB any time soon would be nice.

This, I currently use the wyrm mail for dragoon because unless I have high allagan spear Im comfortable using my animus, im not sure if it will but the only way I would get astrum mail would be if novus's physical dmg didnt go up. Im praying the CT head and torso have decent stats because they would be the only gear I would be willing to trade up from unless I got the high allagan equivalent. Selling out for sold torso and head would be irresponsible and hurt my dmg.

[Hik0]

Since everyone who has capped Soldiery every week since patch has all of their items except maybe one, I think (and hope) the new CT drop ilvl 105 stuff. Otherwise ppl would try it, say "Hey that was fun, but I the gear is too bad for me so no need to go there" and wait time is gonna be really long

only people who play only one class, didnt bought weapon....

and the extra sand/oil per week (if not stupid low drop rate) is enough to have peole do it

[Ooshima]

Since everyone who has capped Soldiery every week since patch has all of their items except maybe one, I think (and hope) the new CT drop ilvl 105 stuff. Otherwise ppl would try it, say "Hey that was fun, but I the gear is too bad for me so no need to go there" and wait time is gonna be really long

You realized that full soldiery will not get you the accuracy requirement for coil2 for quite a handful of jobs and even if they do, the secondary starts are pretty crappy right?

[Kaze3434]

only people who play only one class, didnt bought weapon....

and the extra sand/oil per week (if not stupid low drop rate) is enough to have peole do it

update to sand/oils in ct2.
1:05:04
Q: Can you make it easier to obtain the materials to enhance items to item level 110?
A: This is referring to oil of time and sands of time, right? The development team has a plan outlining the timing with which these items would gradually spread from the top-tier of players, becoming easier to obtain with the introduction of new encounters. This plan is adjusted as we monitor player progression. Patch 2.3 will see the continuation of the Crystal Tower, and we plan to add oil of time and sands of times as rewards here. However, this doesn't mean there will be changes to their drop rate. Rather than making it possible to obtain everything right away, we’ll gradually add the items you can obtain in patch 2.3, 2.35, and 2.38.