Quote Originally Posted by Camate View Post
Hello,

There are currently no plans to change the method for averaging item levels as the team feels that this is not the real issue.

While in some cases players may be wearing lower level equipment for spiritbonding purposes, we understand that there are cases where players are doing this only to cause trouble for others. We’d like players to report anyone who is behaving inappropriately within dungeons or in general.
Then your team needs to go back a rethink things.

A straight average system is broken, since gear that gives lots of Def/MDef and accessories that only give +1/+1 are not equal in terms of being able to complete higher level content. While most of the Examples for the system being broken, in this thread are blatant attempts at trolling/harassment and if seen should be reported like you say. Using the Free AF job quest gear + GC weapon + ilevel 90 accessories, will get you into almost all content, without you having enough Def/MDef to survive it and its the most likely upgrade path that new people will follow, since their accessories will be the most lacking due to not being given any from quests rewards.

And if wearing lower level or offclass gear for Spiritbonding is now not acceptable at all, during Dungeons. I am really going to consider quitting and only coming back for patch months. At least the way I do it anyway, that is only some right side accessories while having my other equipped gear(right class) be so over-ileveled that I still meet the ilevel requirements for the Dungeon with nothing equipped in those spots. Since really the only things left in the game for me to do is farm dungeons for vanity, finish gearing up my crafters and atma farm. And I can't stand atma farming anymore, going on 25+ hours without a drop, Really who ever thought of having a Quest involve RNG in any way, should no longer be allowed to design quests. There never should be the possibility of never being able to complete a Quest.