Request : In Stormblood, allow us to gear without tomestones

[Bourne_Endeavor]

EDIT : Since some people seems to have trouble grasping exactly what tome gear I refer too, I'll clarify it here. The idea is that EX dungeons would drop gear the same ilvl as uncapped tome gear. i.e Neverreap/Fractal would have dropped i170, Antitower/City, i200, Xelphatol/Gubal, i230. The goal is not to easily gain more powerful items, but just having another way of unlocking normal raid (So, i170 for Gordias, 200 for Midas, etc...), without having to farm tomestones, which can be boring. And, of course, the tome system would remain, so that you're not forced to rely on RNG drop. I don't really know where to put odd-patches EX dungeons, though...

I presume you meant 250/260 for Xelphatol, otherwise why would I brother spamming the new dungeons and praying to RNGesus when I could just run ARF ten times and pick up almost an entire set of lore gear guaranteed? If you did mean the higher ilvl, people would simply farm dungeons within the first few weeks then never touch them again. Tomestones and weekly caps exist to prevent spamming. Crafted gear is meant to be that bridge. If people aren't willing to wait, they can use gil to skip some of the grind. Sure, scripture gear is better, but you can do all of The Creator in just ilvl 250 if you really wanted to push it.