Item level compression in Heavensward?

[Ametrine]

I genuinely expect something along this line to happen. I was actually trying to wrap my head around this working , as gear from iLVL 50 to 60 exists as dungeon drops and crafts. ....Maybe make it the "normal" gear, where it has a level requirement below max? Darklight or another new option replacing Artifact by being the new gear you step into endgame in?

We BADLY need more horizontal gear choices. It's even worse for weapons. I opted for the Weathered Yagrush route for my White Mage as it was the ONLY choice aside from second and final coil drops that has any sort of relevance that doesn't require the INSANE kind of grind Relic requires. Despite that, I regret doing so as I now see that I've seriously nerfed myself in harder content. Not making that same mistake on SMN, twelve be with me.

Also, Soldiery Tomes are pathetically easy to get at this point for iLVL 100 gear sets,(I got that Yagrush so fast from Frontlines, which is incredibly lucrative for Tomes if you play during it's "happy hour"), and thus a great deal of the dungeon dropped gear is passed right over. My suggestion would be set up tome gear prices like they are for Wolf Marks: a larger variety of gear sets at different iLVL tiers, and put the prices of said tiers increasingly higher with increase.