Quote Originally Posted by Absurdity View Post
Better gear also means that you can go for riskier strats in some cases. Take E6s for example, nowadays you just ignore the Ifrit and Raktapaksa fireball mechanic, stack north, take the vuln and keep full uptime which certainly helps with killtime, not sure you really want to try that in min ilvl gear.
Yeah that too. So it's far from "no effect on the balance" as was claimed.

Out of curiosity, since I haven't done savage on that level - how much difference does it make to go from i483-ish (available at release of Eden's Verse) to i500 (only available through the raids themselves at the time), particularly for survivability? And how much damage does that move do?

Edit: Corrected item levels - augmented neo-ishgardian was not available in 5.2 and crystarium has limited availability because of tomestones.