I actually find it hard to care about new gear at all... The only people who have any reason to care are those seriously into Savage, but... Well, I get the story from the Normal, and the only thing really worthwhile from Savage is the gear which exists... To make Savage easier... Yeah, I have a hard time caring about that at all... If you ignore the cyclical trap (raid to get gear so you can raid!) that is Alexander, nothing in this game currently requires an item level beyond Law, 3.2 will maybe bump that up to Esoterics... I'll get Lore stuff because why not, same for Normal/Sephirot stuff, but I can hardly bring myself to care at this point... Nothing I care about will require me to have i220 in 3.2... My i210 Kannagi is probably good until 3.5 in all honesty, nevermind the fact that it'll be upgraded by then anyway...

Gear in this game leaves a lot to be desired... Relics are perhaps the only exception, since we actually keep upgrading them (wish we had a gear equivalent), but even then... 3.0 has shown me that SE doesn't care about Relics at all. Legendary weapons which involve a lifeless sh*t stain of a quest which is neither challenging or remotely epic, and when we're finally done creating a weapon with a soul, 4.0 will come along and we'll murder the damn thing to convert it into bullsh*t to skip 4.0s FATE grinding segment of the Relic grind... Excalibur is a reward for sheer mediocrity, rather than something epic to obtain, and even after you obtain it it's only purpose now is to be melted down to speed up making a new weapon, it's like a bad joke...