All dungeons should have minimum ilevel requirements?

[AngelCheese77]

You can level really quick if you keep up with side quests, so I can see the annoyance of people not having the right gear for lower level dungeons. But is it really that bad higher up?

I only ran into such a thing once, where the tank in DD had level 20 gear for some dang reason. I ended up leaving the group, since I was the healer and the 2 DPS were friends of the tank who could apparently do no wrong in their bad gear.

[Nihility]

You can level really quick if you keep up with side quests, so I can see the annoyance of people not having the right gear for lower level dungeons. But is it really that bad higher up?

I only ran into such a thing once, where the tank in DD had level 20 gear for some dang reason. I ended up leaving the group, since I was the healer and the 2 DPS were friends of the tank who could apparently do no wrong in their bad gear.

it's not that bad but when it happens it's pretty painful to deal with. ilvl requirements don't even need to be very strict you know, just something to strain out the blatantly unready

[Kayiko]

The first few dungeons it isn't a problem. But getting a tank in a level 50 dungeon with less health than the healer is a problem. Even if that healer is synced from 70 that makes it way harder then it should be.
I'd say anything above 30 should have a ilvl for dungeons or such. So people can use the items that give exp bonuses below level 30 still.
Even still it should near the level required to enter the dungeon.

[DJaySaint]

But is it really that bad higher up?

Yes. I was doing Castrum Abania with a friend to get their alt through the story and I was tanking it on Paladin. We had a level 70 Scholar so I thought things would be ok. You get free level 70 gear at 70 from your job quest. Except this person showed up with a level 50 unfinished relic and level 40-50 gear. Their heals literally did nothing to my hp. I basically solo healed myself and eventually died when running out of MP to heal with because our dps was pretty low (level 69s with leveling gear or worse). I got Shisui in roulette with a Dragoon who still had level 50ish gear.

I totally agree that all dungeons, even story, should have a minimum item level requirement. There is NO excuse to be running around in item level 50 gear at 60-70. NONE. The story hands you free gear just for clicking a button. Vendors have level appropriate gear that is easily obtained and not expensive. I had like 2 million gil just level up from 1-50 the first time from msq and dungeons and did almost no side quests, so not having gil is a poor excuse for that as well. Problem is people are lazy, and don't care that they are a burden to others.

Being new is not an excuse. When I was new I still made sure I had appropriate level gear for the content I was running because I had a sense of personal responsibility to not be useless to the rest of my group. I wish others did the same.