Could we get "mid-level" relic gear added for newer jobs?

[BokoToloko]

I think just giving some white gear like the initial gear handed down in initial quest would be just fine, since that's recolord gear at only 15 ilvl below highest in level (115 ilvl from quest vs 130 augmented ironworks for example).

I don't think they have to go too much into designing sets of relics to avoid locking new players out of MSQ duties. Though, as far I recall, you can still overcome the minimum ilvl requirements by buying gear from the merchants final areas (Azys Lla, Lochs,....), with MSQ providing the gear for the following duties.

[linayar]

Also, to push the logic that "it's easy to get poetics anyway" to its extreme conclusion, then why give starter gear either? Just give them the weapon and let the player figure out their own gear... but of course they don't do that. The starter gear is equal parts convenience so you can get straight into content without sidetracking for gear, miminum recommended level ready to face that section of the MSQ, and job-appropriate glamour.

Because it's the starter gear. You're not expected to be wearing any gear, so they give you one to start with. By the time you're leveling, you should already be wearing gears for your job.

It should be pointed out that the Stormblood poetics vendor doesn't open until after fighting Shinryu, so anyone who picked up dancer or gunbreaker at 60 and then leveled it as their main can't use tomes to get over that hump.

That's a fair point for consideration, but I don't think that's enough as you don't need to have the antiquated gears to enter Shinryu and chances are there will be people with better gears carrying you through the fight.

I think just giving some white gear like the initial gear handed down in initial quest would be just fine, since that's recolord gear at only 15 ilvl below highest in level (115 ilvl from quest vs 130 augmented ironworks for example).

I don't think they have to go too much into designing sets of relics to avoid locking new players out of MSQ duties. Though, as far I recall, you can still overcome the minimum ilvl requirements by buying gear from the merchants final areas (Azys Lla, Lochs,....), with MSQ providing the gear for the following duties.

That's a good point as well.