Let's nerf gear

[PotatoWafflez]

Gear gaps are even relevant in iLvl Synced content. You get a new player bringing his gear from previous dungeon and you have synced players getting the maximum the instance allows - quite a bit of gap.

This thread is not really a topic I want to get too involved in at the moment but I thought I'd just highlight what I think is the main issue with this aspect of gear/ilvl sync which is more the player base in general doesn't care about their gear at all. The mind boggling gear sets I've seen running the low roulette and when I've been running back to back vales in the evenings gives me the impression that unless there is some kind of tome system people don't care about their gear at all and will just wear whatever they can get away with. The biggest issue at the moment I think is that the level 51+ leveling roulette has no ilvl restriction I got dropped into it Dusk Vigil on my AST while wearing my vale spirit binding set which should never happen.

I also saw a bard this afternoon in Dusk Vigil with the GC bow which is ilvl 55

Also as much as I'd like crafting gear to be relevant the devs have given the impression many times that they don't want it to be so I doubt we will ever see much use out of the materia system any time soon.

[Archaell]

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This is also one big problem. During my leveling as WHM I had few moments when I felt like crappy healer, but in all the instances I had to heal undergeared tank. I wonder why the lower level content lacks item level requirments. It should be there imo.

Just to batch it to the topic. If the stat differences between gear were smaller, then also extremes as you described would be smaller.