Who is gonna raid now with the iLvl 110 gear handed to people??

[A_Magical_Unicorn_Rider]

Would the Hunt rewards be argued about if, say, they gave an item to turn in for i110 gear that didn't have the same STATS as weathered/HA gear? Is it the iLvL that's the problem or the stats on the gear the problem?

[cryptic_angel]

I can't believe you're so blind as to look at the hunt reward schedule in comparison to the REST of FFXIV and assume it's functioning exactly as intended as oppopsed to a mistake that they will rectify with the next level of tiered content.

I think a better point to make is why a multimillion dollar game company could not see the potential abuse of hunts coming before they released it.

Nothing surprises me anymore with SE. It would not surprise me if they made similar mistakes in the future with catch up mechanisms!

[ispano]

Would the Hunt rewards be argued about if, say, they gave an item to turn in for i110 gear that didn't have the same STATS as weathered/HA gear? Is it the iLvL that's the problem or the stats on the gear the problem?

Item level is what determines the maximum stats an item has. So two, say, Monk Body Pieces of the same item level will have the same str and vit. And the sub stats, whatever they may be, will be balanced around that item level. But the main thing is the primary stat, since that matters far more than any sub stat combo.

[Marael]

Not a fan of raiding, never have been, and I promised myself I wasn't going to get dragged into it with this game, soooooo, suits me just fine.

[Freyah]

Right, I knew about that. I've yet to see the boots drop though even once, and this is my second week of Syrcus runs. (First week I panicked a little and ended up greeding on a pair of Phlegethon gauntlets... only to discover I was the only one who did. And then the UAT -and- Oil dropped on the same run. :<) I just mean I've only seen the minion drop once -ever- so far and I rolled really poorly on it.

Keep running it as much as you can, those boots will drop again and at the moment ST seems to be flavor of the month, queue times aren't so long

[A_Magical_Unicorn_Rider]

Item level is what determines the maximum stats an item has. So two, say, Monk Body Pieces of the same item level will have the same str and vit. And the sub stats, whatever they may be, will be balanced around that item level. But the main thing is the primary stat, since that matters far more than any sub stat combo.

Yes, but say the gears available via hunts wasn't the weathered/tome gear, yet still i110 with different/unpreferred stats. Would there have still been an argument about it?

As I posted before about the whole roast beef-chicken sandwich dilemma, what if that chicken sandwich was instead a bowl of porridge? Not everyone likes it, but it's still something. Are we arguing about iLvL or stats? Consider the whole i90 Allagan/i90 AF2 gear situation. Was there an argument on that? I'm not being snarky, I actually want to know if there was an argument about it.

[Shioban]

Actually, the OP is right, it will cause people to start doing coil less, just like Myth gear did to First Coil.

The intention of this gear is to EASE coil, for those who find it difficult, seeing as The Binding Coils of Bahamut are meant to be a challenge with a reward, of course people are still going to do coil.

As well as this a lot of BiS (Best in Slot) items come from ScoB.


And nothing else in-game compares to the High Allagan Weapons, that's e-peen and top-tier weaponry right there.

[Dwill]

The intention of this gear is to EASE coil, for those who find it difficult, seeing as The Binding Coils of Bahamut are meant to be a challenge with a reward, of course people are still going to do coil.

As well as this a lot of BiS (Best in Slot) items come from ScoB.


And nothing else in-game compares to the High Allagan Weapons, that's e-peen and top-tier weaponry right there.

1 piece of gear is not worth giving the all this i110 around.

Huh? But 251 dropped inside a raid.

You're pretty good at destroying your own argument. That gear wasn't close to being as good as the top end gear of that tier.

Care to try again ?

[Giantbane]

I think a better point to make is why a multimillion dollar game company could not see the potential abuse of hunts coming before they released it.

Nothing surprises me anymore with SE. It would not surprise me if they made similar mistakes in the future with catch up mechanisms.

Remember when it was hard to even queue up because SE didn't anticipate anyone actually playing their game? They miss stuff.

[ispano]

Yes, but say the gears available via hunts wasn't the weathered/tome gear, yet still i110 with different/unpreferred stats. Would there have still been an argument about it?

As I posted before about the whole roast beef-chicken sandwich dilemma, what if that chicken sandwich was instead a bowl of porridge? Not everyone likes it, but it's still something. Are we arguing about iLvL or stats? Consider the whole i90 Allagan/i90 AF2 gear situation. Was there an argument on that? I'm not being snarky, I actually want to know if there was an argument about it.

Yes, it would have still caused the argument. Since by being i110 they have the same primary stats as any other i110 pieces for the same role and slot. Non preferred sub stats have very minimal effect, not even the 10% someone mentioned, it's more like 5% at best.