Crystal Tower Controversy: Should Syrcus and Labyrinth be synced to minimum iLv?

[LibitIncarne]

Porgress isn't meaningless in the proposed changes as it still severely impacts the ease and speed of clearance of all duties within the same tier. For instance, current vanilla endgame dungeons ran at BiS gear are not even comparable in terms of efficiency comparatively to what they were with vanilla gear.

It just stops doing it for older tiers comparatively (but not quite either because the higher ilvl gear gets, the more it fills the substats when synced anyway so there is still some mild gear creep involved).

Within the same tier. And then it's meaningless as soon as the next tier drops and the next dungeon's gear is just as good as tier 2's savage gear when you go into an old dungeon.
You know what else fills substats? Materia does, and you often end up being less powerful comparatively unless there's a large disparity in gear level since Materia gets ignored when syncing down.

[Valence]

Within the same tier. And then it's meaningless as soon as the next tier drops and the next dungeon's gear is just as good as tier 2's savage gear when you go into an old dungeon.
You know what else fills substats? Materia does, and you often end up being less powerful comparatively unless there's a large disparity in gear level since Materia gets ignored when syncing down.

I know about materia and that's what makes gear become a little worse when going over a sync threshold compared to the gear prior that didn't sync and had materia. On the other hand one you're multiple patches ahead or an expansion ahead, your substats are all filled up and it's just way superior to materia melds in 99% of the cases (thus why ultimates stop having specific "on sync" BiS sets past a point when current gear just does the job better). It's not a great system overall. I don't see any reason why materia shouldn't sync like all pieces of gear, instead of having this obscure, awkward system that slowly fills up the substats depending on the ilvl gap with the sync.

But ultimately it boils down to where people put the important/priority, and I definitely do put it into the mechanics and the fun I can have from playing specific content. If said content is a snoozefest, what good is better gear gonna do to my enjoyment of the game?