I think syncing to 430 is a mistake, and they should've let it be any ilv.

Why? Because all this will do is reinforce what I guaratee you we'll see: PF's locked to "must have cleared original shiva ex" so that the people know mechanics.

For example, I still remember doing shiva ex when it was still the latest extreme. I could spend 1 h lockout trying to explain to a group of 7 people who have never done it, or I can make a pf for people who already know the mechs and clear it easily.

HOWEVER, if they hadn't locked the ilv, I wouldn't care because it would be easier to carry newbies because deaths wouldn't matter as much, neither would the dps check if we had an overall average ilv of 460 in the party from newbies with 430 and raiders with 500.

It being locked so low means that there's no improvement in dps checks possible at all either, so if people are struggling with the dps check there's 0 thing they can do in terms of gear because it's locked to the minimum apart from overmelding old gear and using pots (which while useful in savage, I don't think should be necessary for extremes)

There's absolutely no way that people won't still lock pfs to ilv 490 + purely because they know people with that kind of ilv has put effort in to learn the game and their jobs. It doesn't even matter about the dps output here, it's just fact that if you have ilv 500 gear now you have put in effort to learn your job etc. Just because you can't get that ilv without doing savage.

I have no issue with people who have never done savage personally and I don't mind explaining the strat and have done so in mentor roulettes but that won't stop this from happening.

So yeah I think this is a bad thing for new players, it'll either show them that A: the game is really easy if they keep the checks lax, or B: the game is too hard if they give it the same checks it used to have without letting us overgear it.

Hopefully I'm wrong