How is ilvl an issue while leveling?

[Luin]

I saw a dark knight once with caster right side gear. I face palmed.

I had a healer in O5S this morning wearing Alexandrian Ring of Slaying. We still cleared, and honestly I thought it was hilarious, but it does remind me to check *before* the pull.

Needless to say I'm far more lenient on right-side gear, and I hope everyone is too. Not to say I wouldn't kick a tank wearing caster accessories, but I'd be fine with 255 NQ vendor accessories in Abania. Compared to HQ crafted accessories that's like 120 vit difference, and can basically be made up with Doma or HQ left-side.

um NQ whites are worse than shire gear, I think. NQ gear in general is very bad when leveling, it's worse than the gear you get for dungeons. Like if you get the shisui set, nq gear is a downgrade, only HQ gear is a boost from that. There's a reason why every quest reward is HQ gear now, and why no one buys 350 nq gear.

And it actually is hard to gear up from bardams on, for some reason they seem to drop gear much more slowly. Like you get the guaranteed one piece, but when I lvled all my jobs to 70 bardams and on were very hard to get. Bardams in particular doesn't give gear from chests till the first boss I think. you end up outleveling the dungeons well before you get a full set.

I mean, you shouldn't be wearing all shire, just doing dungeons while leveling gives some, and some hq pieces are very cheap due to being common quest rewards. But they do need to work on gearing some at mid levels.

um, no they aren't.

NQ white is an improvement over Shisui and Augmented Shire as soon as you hit 66. Once you hit Doma, there's no *valid* excuse to be in any Shisui or Augmented Shire left-side. Can you do those dungeons in full aug shire? Yeah, but it's a pain in the rear and you don't really need to. Just spend a little bit of gil and it'll go a heck of a lot faster and easier.