An issue I think people don't notice

[Moomba33]

I don't think the ilevel wall is too bad with the help of hunts and PVP. If anything maybe those aspects just need to be advertised better in game.

I can see how a new player may have missed the daily Centurio hunts while leveling.
To unlock the Ishgard daily hunts you must have already unlocked the ARR daily hunt board which requires hitting Second Lieutenant in your GC. My non-tank alts had to grind seals a bit to hit this rank (the tank had an excess from the adventurer in need bonus from leveling roulette) so someone rushing the story may miss out on it.

For a new player who just hit 60 without much gil or centurio seals and didn't do any potd while leveling PVP is probably the best way to start gearing up. You only need i150 to enter and you can buy i235 pieces with wolf marks while earning tomestones for PVE gear.
4000 wolf marks for an i235 weapon in particular is a great boost.

[Kaedan]

It's extremely easy to get gear that is lower than 260. All you need is the basic gear you get from MSQ and you can just do the appropriate dungeons, Alex, or Void Ark/Mhach.

If you got him through the MSQ, then you at least did the required story dungeons to get there.

[XSamsaraLotusX]

Google things maybe?
No one need to tell you what to do.

[Solarra]

I agree with the OP's suggestion of letting the level 50 and 60 roulettes unlock once you have done some of them. This would help newer players a lot.
I remember hitting the 'Great wall of Dungeons' at level 50 and chewing through them all to unlock the roulette. By the time this expansion is finished, level 60 will be just as big an obstacle. I don't think it's giving new players too much of an advantage to allow them to do the roulette without having cleared them all

@Samsara - lol Your oh so helpful response reminded me of my days playing WoW. Glad that attitude isn't any where near as prevalent in this community.

[Youkulm]

@OP Im sorry but this is not a problem...

Crafting, Hunts ( which you can start at level 51 I believe.. meaning seals could have been collected starting /way/ before level 60 and they'd have a full set in their hot little hands before that ), A Few Dungeons, Bing Bang Boom.. Done...

The gear grind is not nearly as bad as it was before. There has been a lot of things put into place to help with that struggle ( mainly the crafted gear ). Let's also not forget how easy it is to get gear from Alex as well.

You have to do content to gear up, i fail to see the issue if they plan on doing content and playing anyhow. If they plan on playing the game they'll have to unlock a lot of these things anyway...

Why just throw free gear at them and then elimnate the need to do anything at all ( Dungeons, Raids, PotD, Story, Crafting, Gathering... ) Do they even want to play the game or do they want to skip ahead to AFKing around in town because they have nothing to do? This is an MMORPG the long run game & progression is kind of part of the deal.

As for the dungeon... I have no problem with lvl 50 roulette being unlocked, but 60 shouldn't be until 4.0 when gear will all be synced. Level 60 is still relevent content. Maybe if your buddy had done these dungeons to begin with gear wouldn't be an issue for them. Let's also remember the gear that drops in dungeons ( mainly speaking about 60 now ) just isn't for glamour, it's also catch up gear.

Again this is an MMORPG. Instant gratification usually isn't part of the deal...

Need an easy to obtain weapon? PotD, Relic, Hunts ( again I know... ), Crafted. None of those are that difficult to obtain while you save for a Shire weapon.

[Derio]

Wouldnt be surprised if they put 230 gear as rewards in patch 3.55 so people can catch up for stormblood.

[aesteval]

Google things maybe?
No one need to tell you what to do.

Requiring players to Google the flow of content is poor game design. Games are interactive media and excel at introducing the player to things as a part of playing.

[AmalonStar]

Recently I got my friend to level 60 we managed to avoid burning him out on story and levelling thanks to main story exp boost. But once we hit 60 we almost lost him to item level raising blocking him from progressing story. The biggest issue being getting him a decent weapon.

I don't know if some of this had been answered but I recently discovered that you can get ilvl 200 weapons for centrio seals in ishguard and you can also get the upgrade item as well, I think you'd be looking at like 200 seals for both.

I like the idea of making the lvl 60 roulette similar to the lvling roulette where you can unlock it with 2 dungeons and just get a reduced amount of tombs for doing it, I have a similar issue with a char I have on another server tho my ilvl on that char is around 200 but still going to get stopped my ilvl restrictions.

[Yukiko]

(..) Do they even want to play the game or do they want to skip ahead to AFKing around in town because they have nothing to do? This is an MMORPG the long run game & progression is kind of part of the deal. (..)

I know many idle games where you have to do NOTHING that have actually more content than FFXIV...
Most games (because you refer to MMO games) using a mix system where you have parts idle while doing some other things active.

Using MMO as an excuse is just weak reasoning!

Edit: In most games the idle part is either connected to level up (sub level, weapons level, skill level and so on...) or connected to hyperinflation (currency gain, special gems, present box, and so on...)

[enthauptet]

Hunts are honestly like the worst way to gear up. First you have to unlock them which takes unnecessary time since if people are like me with my alt they reached lvl 60 and finished heavensward before even getting to the top 3 ranks in grand company so you can't even do daily hunt missions. Also it's several times faster to just run through alexander gordias/midas as a full group to get 190-220 stuff. (takes less than 1 hr) Doing POTD is a good way to get a weapon though.