I don't know what can honestly be done for Final Fantasy XIV at this point.

[Jeeqbit]

If I had my way, these soft enrages would go up on a base percent + a modifier scale based on a few things:
- iLvl

In order for gear to matter, gear must make you more powerful. If attacks sync up to your item level, then the benefit of gear reduces significantly. This already happens enough with all the content we sync down to and current expansion content is the little content in the game we mostly don't sync in so our gear actually matters.

The gear could be useful for increasing DPS still, but the extra health is significant in helping you get through fights easier as well.

[Absurdity]

In order for gear to matter, gear must make you more powerful. If attacks sync up to your item level, then the benefit of gear reduces significantly. This already happens enough with all the content we sync down to and current expansion content is the little content in the game we mostly don't sync in so our gear actually matters.

The gear could be useful for increasing DPS still, but the extra health is significant in helping you get through fights easier as well.

Pretty much, getting better gear already hardly matters since all content in the game can be cleared in just crafted gear. So if incoming damage scaled with better gear there would be even less of a point in getting it... outside of chasing big numbers on fflogs and we can't count that as a game feature.

[Rolder50]

Pretty much, getting better gear already hardly matters since all content in the game can be cleared in just crafted gear. So if incoming damage scaled with better gear there would be even less of a point in getting it... outside of chasing big numbers on fflogs and we can't count that as a game feature.

All content in the game can be cleared in just crafted gear *if everyone in the party is highly skilled. Gear mainly helps weaker groups clear in a timely fashion.

And I'm not sure if ultimate can be cleared in crafted gear. Has anyone tried?

[Absurdity]

All content in the game can be cleared in just crafted gear *if everyone in the party is highly skilled. Gear mainly helps weaker groups clear in a timely fashion.

And I'm not sure if ultimate can be cleared in crafted gear. Has anyone tried?

Right now you can't. From the bit of DSR that I've experienced you would most likely just get oneshot even with mitigation, if damage however scales with ilvl you might be able to clear it with just crafted gear.

You don't even need a "highly" skilled party, just people who can press buttons when they need to but yes, better gear is supposed to make fights easier. So if better gear meant the boss just dealt more damage it would somewhat defeat that point.