5.3 COMPLETE patch notes

[Jirah]

Three things have just occurred to me with the announcement that ARR levelling dungeons will have guaranteed gear drops:

1. This means I don't have to keep the acolyte, battlemage, etc. sets in my glamour dresser any more because it'll be easy(er) to get them back on the occasions I need them.

2. Getting hold of the unique weapons in those early dungeons will be easier - I've wanted the Ancient Sword from Stone Vigil for a while but never got to farming it.

3. Does this mean they maybe added more unique gear to replace the aetherial items being taken out? I don't expect actual new designs, but if they bring in some designs from later expansions that would be great.

it wouldnt make alot of sense to add new gear to dungeons of eld since all new jobs dont have classes so they start at 30, or the stupid decision of starting at 60, alo im 90% sure ur desired gear has dyable options in the market board named somthing else

[Iscah]

it wouldnt make alot of sense to add new gear to dungeons of eld since all new jobs dont have classes so they start at 30, or the stupid decision of starting at 60, alo im 90% sure ur desired gear has dyable options in the market board named somthing else

It's not targeted at the people who have Lv60 jobs and are getting dragged down to the Lv20 dungeon; it's targeted at helping new players to gear up.

The contents of treasure coffers in [ARR levelling] dungeons have been adjusted to ensure players receive gear of a suitable strength.
Furthermore, players will always receive a weapon or piece of armor equippable by their current job upon completing one of these dungeons:

Combined with the removal of aetherial gear, that either leaves the hodgepodge of items currently dropped in every other dungeon OR they add new ones. Currently if you strip out aetherial gear, the dungeons either only drop armour or only drop weapons, so it seems like there has to be something filling the gaps.

There are a few other recurring designs that occur alongside the ones currently given as unique dungeon gear - the Uraeus set and the one with bulky arm and leg guards that G'raha Tia wears, and the Vanya robes might be part of that series too. Maybe some others as well. They show up repeatedly in the Lv50 crafted and PVP sets. Those would be obvious things to draw on to quickly add "new" gear to old dungeons for minimal work. Remember we got a lot of new crafted gear with old models with either 5.1 or 5.2 as well.

And yes, technically the acolyte and battlemage robes are on the marketboard under different names, but they're different colours (you can't dye them to be identical) and they're locked to healing and casting, respectively.