Enforce ilvl-sync to Alliance Raid Roulettes to put a stop to the Crystal Tower Spam

[Selsix]

Is ilvl cheese even against the rules? I've been playing this game for nearly a decade and I've never once heard it mentioned as abuse or heard of someone being punished for it. I can certainly see why it could be considered abuse, but this thread is the first I'm hearing about people being reported for it.

[Toutatis]

I can certainly see why it could be considered abuse, but this thread is the first I'm hearing about people being reported for it.

I don’t use iLevel cheese but I don’t see how a player can find out if someone has used it.

Some people mention health going up when loading but it means nothing. The game snapshots the gear at the moment of queuing: a player can equip the better gear immediately after and would have a full hp bar by the time the queue pops. On the other hand, while I wait in queue, I almost always switch to a crafter or gatherer which significantly shrinks my HP. I switch back to my battle job when the queue pops, sometimes at the last second if I am crafting an item at that moment.

A lvl 60-something player is in lvl 50 gear? Again it doesn’t mean anything. I have one such level 60-something character that is still in post ARR quests. Before she even has the option to unlock the next series of raids (assuming I want to unlock them), she’ll have to finish HW anyway. The 60 tome gear is also locked until she reaches the end of HW. She’ll probably be lvl 70 something by then because it is pretty much impossible to not over level these days with all the xp bonuses. There’s no point even buying better gear from the MB as there is no content to use it on: the game limits her to lvl 50 content as it is tied to MSQ progress.

[Saraide]

I don’t use iLevel cheese but I don’t see how a player can find out if someone has used it.

Some people mention health going up when loading but it means nothing. The game snapshots the gear at the moment of queuing: a player can equip the better gear immediately after and would have a full hp bar by the time the queue pops. On the other hand, while I wait in queue, I almost always switch to a crafter or gatherer which significantly shrinks my HP. I switch back to my battle job when the queue pops, sometimes at the last second if I am crafting an item at that moment.

A lvl 60-something player is in lvl 50 gear? Again it doesn’t mean anything. I have one such level 60-something character that is still in post ARR quests. Before she even has the option to unlock the next series of raids (assuming I want to unlock them), she’ll have to finish HW anyway. The 60 tome gear is also locked until she reaches the end of HW. She’ll probably be lvl 70 something by then because it is pretty much impossible to not over level these days with all the xp bonuses. There’s no point even buying better gear from the MB as there is no content to use it on: the game limits her to lvl 50 content as it is tied to MSQ progress.

If you swap from a crafter to the job you queued on right before the last person accepts then you spawn in fully healed iirc. Entering a duty resets you. Occasionally after spawning in you see someone be at max hp and then suddenly miss a lot of HP. That's a sign that they have just requipped gear. I have never heard about someone getting punished for doing so either however.