Raising this thread back up because I wanted to bring up a concern of mine that's been kinda picking at my head since I dove into 4.4. And it's Power Creep. Something that's running rampant in this game now..

I remember when the item level was only 130, then 270. Now we are sitting at 400 with what might be 500 and 600 in the future. This bothers me. We are already so strong and Stormblood has put the power creep *through the roof*. Classes are just casually throwing 25k attacks and 50k attacks like it's nothing and we have attacks with 800-1,000 potency. What is the path FFXIV will take with this power creep? Next expansion are we going to get attacks that are 600 potency 10sec cooldown, SAM with 1,500 potency attacks? Grade VII materia boosting stats by 75 each? Tanks with 140,000HP? It seems like that's the way we're going.

Although we know nothing of the upcoming expansion I feel safe in assuming that this is what will happen or else they you(Devs) seriously change something with the progression system. Or i1000 and +501 STR per piece will soon be a reality. Please don't allow us to just eventually pump out over 100,000 damage regularly like it's nothing and have bosses with a billion HP because it really doesn't sound that fun.. we are already way too strong in SB. Direct Hit is overpowered and too many stats only enhance DPS.