Quote Originally Posted by Wyakin View Post
Let’s take a step away from savage gear and look at the casual player. They’re most likely wearing a full set of i500 captain crystarium gear made available by simply doing your weekly 24 man dungeon. No the stats aren’t perfect but hey, they’re still i500. Why even bother, why even cap your points each week when SE then cucks you and makes your gear pointless by capping a dungeon every time. You are actually now a high enough item level to complete the rest of the entire expansion. You have zero content to use your i500 gear because SE insists on making item level cap content. It’s not even a logical cap either, it’s i430 mostly which is the level of gear the moment you hit 80! Handed to you by an NPC for zero effort.
There are contents that don't have item level sync, like raids and trials, where better gears will always be useful.

And this upcoming change with 2 dungeons having item level sync at 500 means you can keep using those gears if you want and be at your "best" for those specific dungeons.