Law gear is now officially pointless...

[myahele]

Not really, it's a stepping stone for content + those gear are all RNG based so you may or may not get a complete set in a timely manner.

[Teslo]

Oh. My. God. Guys... GUYS...! Darklight gear is OFFICIALLY WORTHLESS now! OMFG! FREAKOUT!

[HaelseMikiro]

exploration gear is aetherial gear. Thus it can have any stat you want it to have (with some luck) and therefore you can pinpoint a BiS with exactly the stats you want and where you want them.

Whether or not you drop the items you need for that though is up to RNG

The RNG required is so astronomical I think any rational person wouldn't even hope to get a BiS from Diadem gold chests. Seeing a half dozen 210s drops today, every one of them was worthless. I saw a casting accessory that had 47 Int, 4 accuracy...and nothing else. It's not just the secondaries that are randomized, but also the values of those secondaries. The ones I did see had a sum of secondaries ranging from 4 to mid 50's. None of them have had a sum in the lower 70s, which is what I'd be expecting for anything to be BiS. I'm sure they can and will eventually drop to some lucky people, but I'll just be happily turning them in for spoils

And on topic, I'm still excited about spending my Law on things I can desynth, or the red scrip items to use for crafting better DoH/L gear

[Aarik]

You know what is also pointless? Crafted gear. Admittedly, the top-tier HQ crafted gear has always been at least 10 ilvls below the BiS gear if not more...but ilvl185. The top-tier, pain in the arse to make crafted gear....is equal to the dungeon gear. Going to say it since SE won't: SE does not want crafting in this game. Go away crafters. They don't say it, but that's what they want.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

The 2 new dungeons drop i185 gear. Really.

In theory. I ran both dungeons and roulette. In those 3 runs, all I got was a freaking caster belt. And I'm still not high enough to take on Void Ark.

[ChaozWolfe]

That's my number one gripe with this game. 99% of the gear is useless. Right now the only gear worth having is ilvl210. Everything else is wasted space. I've been playing a lot of Diablo 3 recently and their approach to gear is so much better it's ridiculous. Yes stats are important, but mix it up with extra stats, bonuses, etc. Anything!

[Ageofwar]

The new level 60 exploration ventures also require i170, so LAW gear has a use on retainers as well.

lol I got my THM retainer in Alex gear

[loreleidiangelo]

Oh. My. God. Guys... GUYS...! Darklight gear is OFFICIALLY WORTHLESS now! OMFG! FREAKOUT!

I love how people are always surprised and upset whenever gear and/or content is phased out in this unceasingly-vertical MMO.

[Aarik]

Gear being phased out is understandable. But the best new crafted battle gear was LITERALLY phased out on release; there's no point in even trying to obtain them except for glamour. Desynthesis? Run a dungeon, you'll get gear the same level for far cheaper. Convert to grade V materia (possibly)? Island exploration lets you trade in loot for grade V materia on the cheap. So yeah....useless. GG SE.

[CyrilLucifer]

Oh. My. God. Guys... GUYS...! Darklight gear is OFFICIALLY WORTHLESS now! OMFG! FREAKOUT!

Hey man, at least Darklight gear is decent for glamour. The gloves are one my favorite for mages, since they're claw-like and the boots are one of the few heavier-armor sets casters/healers can wear.