It's that time again folks! (Tomestone thread)

[Neophyte]

My first post about excitement was actually sarcasm honestly. I'm not excited about them at all. All they really do is bring a new tier of ilvl that I have to keep up with to stay relevant on EX primals. I don't do the alex raids but I need to meet ilvl requirements in order to do EX. Falling behind in a "lockout" styled game means that if you take a long break, you can literally come back and have to wait a week or two before you can even do the "new" content.

Wait, what?

Sephiroth was ilvl 205 and Niddhog was ilvl 220.
Sooooo... it can be assumed that Sophia ex ilvl requirement will be 235 and the ilvl of the ex primal/trial (coming out in 4-5(!) months) will be 250.
So, looking at my gear, to do the overnext primal I could go with the Sophia weapon, 2-3 creator normal gear (being 250), 2-3 old tome/raid gear (being 240) + 2-3 new tome/raid gear (being 260/70) + 2-3 crafted gear (being 250)... with 4 months time to get these.... doesn't sound that much, it's highly possible to have quite a few classes at that level (when taking shared gear into account).
I mean, like always.. I might be able to do a ilvl 235 Sophia fight then with WHM, SCH, PLD, WAR, SMN, BLM, MNK and if I had them levelled with AST and DRK as well.

You could've done Sephiroth right from the start, if geared up in 3.1 and you could've done the 3.3 ex trial (Niddhog) with a mix of 4 month old crafted gear, 4 month old midas normal drops and an 4 month old sephiroth weapon then, so to say a mix of the lowest 3.2 gear... no lore involved.

If there was no tome cap, the minimum ilvl has to be increased by at least 15 ilvls in my opinion.