High Level Dungeon Gear Is Redundant

[Alistaire]

This isn't even true. The job challenge stuff is i50, body i55, and dungeon drops start at i55. The only way to get the job-specific i90 gear now is thru dungeons. They basically skipped making a dungeon-specific i90 set and rebranded the previous i90 tome gear as those dungeon drops.

Also desynth means your request should never be done.

[Inferiae]

This isn't even true. The job challenge stuff is i50, body i55, and dungeon drops start at i55. The only way to get the job-specific i90 gear now is thru dungeons. They basically skipped making a dungeon-specific i90 set and rebranded the previous i90 tome gear as those dungeon drops.

Also desynth means your request should never be done.

With introduction of Heavensward, your level 45 and 50 quests give you the old Myth set, i90. Plus the normal i50/55 AF gear.

[Alistaire]

With introduction of Heavensward, your level 45 and 50 quests give you the old Myth set, i90. Plus the normal i50/55 AF gear.

Oh wow. OK then, just the desynth issue.

And the fact they made everything drop both gear + mats where before it was one or the other. Can't really expect any more than that.

[Makeda]

With introduction of Heavensward, your level 45 and 50 quests give you the old Myth set, i90. Plus the normal i50/55 AF gear.

Unless you did the level 45 before then, and are coming in now - then you're locked out of the iLevel 90 stuff and need other pathways to catch up.

[Nyalia]

Unless you did the level 45 before then, and are coming in now - then you're locked out of the iLevel 90 stuff and need other pathways to catch up.

Crafted level 50, i115 gear is cheap.

[Makeda]

Crafted level 50, i115 gear is cheap.

That's a matter of perspective I suppose. If you don't have level 60s giving you the amount of gil 60s content rewards, those crafted items from Heavensword are absurdly priced. At least on my server they start at 200,000 gil and go up.

Its my Miqot'e that was hit by this, and she's my tank. Basically until I hit far enough into the main story, I'm running around with half my gear half the iLevel of the rest, and it means I have to seriously struggle to hold threat on any group content - and while I'm as a result avoiding tanking for now, the 2.1 through to start of Heavensword have a couple of mandatory story related group bosses to fight.

Not to mention all the dungeons at the end of 2.0 - were very difficult. But its a short slog so this is more of an annoyance than a major complaint. Well, it is more just pointing out that there is a missing gear tier now for some players.

When they added that stuff to the level 45 Job quests, they should have added some way for people past those quests to get it. Some of it looks nicer than the straight level 45 stuff, and it was removed from the vendor you used to buy it from - so my Miqot'e will never have the option to use that as a Glamour set. And this I suspect will be a complaint for some - though that particular set it not one I planned to glamour anyway.

[Nyalia]

That's a matter of perspective I suppose. If you don't have level 60s giving you the amount of gil 60s content rewards, those crafted items from Heavensword are absurdly priced. At least on my server they start at 200,000 gil and go up.

Wow, they're like, 10k to craft. Provide materials and request an FC-mate make it for you? If you were on my server, I'd do it for you, but you're not =\

You'll get handed the i110 soldiery set from quests later on. The i110 accessories come from the 2.3 quests prior to the Ramuh fight, and the i110 body pieces come from the quests after that point through the end of 2.4. It looks like they added the i70 "phil"/darklight accessories and i80 giantsgall weapons to the 2.1 questline, the "myth"/Hero's accessories and the Extreme Primal quest weapons to the 2.2 questline, the i110 "soldiery" accessories and hats to the 2.3 questline, and the i110 "soldiery" non-hat armor and weapons to the 2.4 questline.. The 2.5-2.55 still has no rewards, but I'll bet they'll add the i130 "poetics" gear there once they remove Poetics.

The myth set, the stuff that looks like the level 45(50 chest)/i50(i55 chest) AF set, actually does drop from dungeons. You can get it from the 2.4 dungeons if you want it for glamour later. It's actually really great because instead of having the gear drop, you get tokens instead which you can trade in for the i90 myth gear for any class, your choice. That doesn't help you get to that point, but once there, you can definitely still get the gear. If you're level 50, without even running the story, you should be able to queue for Qarn HM and Sastasha HM which both drop the tokens. The only dungeon that drops that gear that you can't run without doing the 2.4 story first is Snowcloak.

The items, by the way, are the "Antique" armor pieces, which you trade in to a person in Rowena's House of Splendors in Mor Dhona, room on the right, person on the right.

The soldiery gear, I'm not sure how to get, but I think you can get it via the 2.x Hunt rewards (Allied Seals)?