Alliance Raid Now iLvl Locked, Why??

[Snowfire]

I'm going to state it simply. I am mid-way through Stormblood. I started playing FFXIV less than a year ago. I like taking my time with the MSQ and most days all I want to do is a roulette or two, check on my retainers, hang out with my FC. I am on Dynamis so at some points I have seen 600%+ EXP buffs with the Road to 80. One MSQ roulette usually = 2+ levels gained, so you can level a job 50-60 in a week without even trying. I have levelled 11 of 19 jobs to 60 almost entirely via MSQ, tomestone events, and daily roulettes because I wanted to spread around some of that EXP. I only do MSQ on one job now because that alone is so much EXP. It's ridiculous. The point I am making is playing multiple jobs is completely insufficient to deal with overlevelling, it is not that simple so please stop saying it.

I have the level 50 & 60 alliance raids unlocked because that is what I have access to. I want to be able to do alliance raids with the jobs that I enjoy playing the most and am most comfortable with. I do not enjoy playing most of those 11 jobs I have levelled. And a lot of the time, queuing for the roulette is substantially faster than hard-queuing for individual raids. I enjoy alliance raids and want to play them more often, is that so strange?

I do not want to buy my level 90 jobs level 90 market board equipment because I do not *need* level 90 market board equipment. I have plenty of gil, that is not the problem. I entirely understand why the requirements have been introduced. It cannot be that hard to change the ilvl requirement to be based on the player's highest raid's level.

If I could have turned off Road to 80 when I finished ARR I completely would have, but now it feels like I'm being punished for simply being on Dynamis and not speedrunning the MSQ like a significant chunk of the replies on this thread seems to think you should. I hope someone from SquareEnix has more patience to read this thread than I do and appreciates what a disappointment this is for people who just want to have fun playing this game and aren't min-maxers or cheaters.

Who said you need to go buy level 90 gear? It's based on the bare minimum you need to do raids at level 90, which you pretty much have by the end of Endwalker just from playing the MSQ.

If you aren't level 90, you'll just get the alliance raids that are at your current level or lower. It's not a big deal.

Maybe I can clarify. If ALL your jobs are level 90, then you will need the minimum ilvl required to do level 90 for the Aglaia raid.

If you are doing the Alliance Roulette with a level 70 job, you will only need your ilvl to be the minimum for the Stormblood raids (Return to Ivalice). If you don't have Ivalice unlocked, it will do the other two (CT and the Sky Pirate ones). You can do the Alliance Roulette with whatever job and level you want. It will just make you equip your best gear for your job's current level.