Who else is bored? Same Content and Formula...Was SB a waste of money?

[Bourne_Endeavor]

You defeat your own argument, if it was not capped, people could gear up on their own time,

Some would, most would not. Verity stands proof of that as you'll be hard pressed to find people who didn't have their preferred jobs completely geared within the first few weeks. Furthermore, if Creation tomes were uncapped, PF groups would simply bump up the ilvl requirement. Savage pugs typically set an ilvl restriction between 316-325. You know what that means? You need crafted, Omega normal or Creation to join those parties. Do you honestly believe that ilvl demand wouldn't be scaled upwards if the base level were 330? Therefore, you'd have to gear immediately if you wanted to queue into Savage without a pre-arranged static. What about non-raiding content? Who cares? As has been repeated ad nauseam, everything above 310 is overkill for non-Savage content. Your entire argument hinges on an ilvl nothing requires you to have. Only Savage encourages it due to community preference to kill things fast.

You have also continuously ignored how uncapped Creation tomes renders half the content released devoid of any incentive. People don't run dungeons for the gear drops, they do it for Verity and Creation because it's better. Omega normal, Ivalice and crafted gear would all be worthless since it's weaker than the now uncapped Creation tomes. If the devs ever made such a change, they would have to adjust everything. That a system may look like the following:

- Creation tomestones ilvl reduced to 320; uncapped
- Crafted gear unchanged (superior by virtue of overmelds, albeit expensive)
- Omega normal ilvl increased to 330; RNG dependent, same weekly restrictions and potential increase to tokens required (five stafts for a body piece exchange instead of four, for instance)
- Ivalice unchanged
- Savage unchanged

In lieu of farming tomestones, you now have to run Omega normal for the best gear. Why? As noted above, it needs some incentive or people simply won't queue into it week after week. Remember, this content is intended to last several months. It needs a constant stream of people to maintain adequate queue times.

we need a system that allows a "casual" to "keep up" with the hardcore

We already have this? Every three and a half months, a 24-man raid releases that allows everyone to acquire the capped tomestone equivalent ilvl gear. Why do you need ilvl 330 gear now? You don't need it unless you're doing Savage. If you want to queue into a dungeon. It can be with a 290 Red Mage and no one's going to bat an eyelash. You just want the best gear immediately. Okay, great. Go do Savage. You don't want to? I guess you'll wait for Ivalice. Capping Creation isn't "hardcore."