Quote Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor View Post
There's a simple solution to this problem. Stop blitzing through the MSQ and take a deter to unlock those dungeons so you can obtain Creation or do the 24 man raids. It takes less than a day to have everything unlocked; perhaps a few more if you're only playing a handful of hours a day/week. If that is too much, well, sorry the game doesn't provide even more hand outs than it already does. Come 4.4, should we just start gifting people i380 gear upon release? God forbid you have to do side story content.
The problem is not the ilvl requirement, nor the need to do side content. The problem is the big jump in ilvl requirement which necessitates breaking off the MSQ and doing a lot of side content in a big chunk.

There should have been 2-3 more mandatory dungeons and/or trials between Drowned City of Skalla and Castrum Fluminis, each with a smaller increase of ilvl requirement. Then the progression would feel far more natural, and the grinding more spread out.