Frontlines: Will def/mdef now come into play?

[Edenlys]

No!
This is NOT how item syncing works, what item syncing does is reduce the stats of your gear to the ilvl 80 stat caps, it does not restrict your character stats on their own!

Your amount of statistic is capped ! All of your stat will be capped from 100+ to 80

[CeveArthu]

Your amount of statistic is capped ! It's the same thing on Alea. As a healer, amout of HP never exceed 3800 HP even if fully viitality jewel...

That's level syncing, not item level syncing

[Edenlys]

That's level syncing, not item level syncing

It's always a item sync... i80 is pretty low, there is less influence of itemization.

[Pibz]

It's always a item sync... i80 is pretty low, there is less influence of itemization.

That's not what you said above, and no there isn't.
Assuming each piece of i80 str accessory would give 10-11 str, having a full set of i90+ of those synced down to 80 would give you 50-55 more str than if you were using full vit acessory set and the full i90+ vit accessory set synced down would give 12-13 more vit per accessory to a grand total of 60 or 65 more vit.
Please tell me how having 50-55 more str or 60-65 more vit doesn't make a difference...
And there is NO character based stat cap in ilvl or EVEN in pure lvl syncing........