What happens to our iLevels?

[Gunspec]

3.0 will be the same as WoW, but lots of people don't seem to understand what that means.

If you hit level cap in a WoW expansion (let's say level 70), and were only wearing the stuff that you got during quests (maybe ilevel 155), the gear from the beginning of the next expansion would be incredibly powerful (like ilevel 200 at level 71). However, if you hit level cap in the previous expansion, and then did ALL of the RAID and DUNGEON content as it was released, you would end the previous expansion at about ilevel 235.

The new gear at the beginning of the expansion only seems incredibly powerful if you were using a FRESH character who hadn't geared up over the course of the expansion.

In Heavensward, a FRESH level 50 player will be encountering gear of ilevel 90-100 right of the bat. That's a HUGE increase over their ilevel 55 job gear. But for anyone that has been running expert dungeons, World of Darkness, Coil, etc, the new gear will not be worth equipping until much later in the leveling process.

[Natsuno]

The new gear at the beginning of the expansion only seems incredibly powerful if you were using a FRESH character who hadn't geared up over the course of the expansion.

In Heavensward, a FRESH level 50 player will be encountering gear of ilevel 90-100 right of the bat. That's a HUGE increase over their ilevel 55 job gear. But for anyone that has been running expert dungeons, World of Darkness, Coil, etc, the new gear will not be worth equipping until much later in the leveling process.

That jump while leveling a new class was nice. Struggling to take a couple of mobs at a time at first, then things getting better with a few upgrades and a what seems to be OP green weapon.

Can we please stop talking about WoW?

Makes a change from the 'In FFXI....' threads. (yes, I'm joking. lighten up)

hm... I think it would be more fitting if gear ilvl from 51 to 60 progress from ilvl 90 to 140, so at lvl 51 you can have gear of ilvl that at least lets you enter current endgame dungeons,then progress so at lvl 60 standard/questable/purchasable gear to be better than the one we have now but the new gear for lvl 60 dungeons/raids and the new AF to jump to ilvl160~180

so in rough numbers...
lvl51-ilvl90
lvl52-ilvl95
lvl53-ilvl100
lvl54-ilvl105
lvl55-ilvl115
lvl56-ilvl120
lvl57-ilvl125
lvl58-ilvl130
lvl59-ilvl135
lvl60-ilvl140-raids ilvl160-180

This seems right.

[ZeratoTyrael]

Just my opinion, but i'd like it if the current top end gear got fully replaced around 57/58ish. You have to remember, they said 50-60 won't just be a quick leveling deal, they said it would take some time. That means there's plenty of opportunities from quests/dungeons to allow people to gear up. Having a weapon or a piece or 2 of gear not be replaced until cap is all fine and dandy, but keeping your ENTIRE set of gear and not needing to upgrade til the new cap... it just doesn't sit right with me. Replacing gear has always been apart of leveling in expansions. I have no problem with previous expansion gear helping speed up the first half of the leveling process but it should start getting replaced at least at 56 and almost fully replaced before hitting cap.

I also keep seeing people talking about fresh 50's going into the expansion...I'm sure the first few quests will be tuned lower and will have plenty of gear to get them up to date if they do decide to make it available to them somewhat quickly.

Again, all my opinion as with everyone's as well since we have no true historical pattern or proof to go off of. I honestly felt like I wasted my time thinking about this but I'm bored so meh

[kehn]

sure... cause we're getting gear lvl 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 like we get gear lvl 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. I really don't understand what people is talking about here. ilvl has nothing to do with character lvl there will be gear for lvl 60 players that will have lower ilvl than 130. who says getting to lvl 60 will be hard? why is people coming up with all this shit?