Armoury System Mechanics

[Naberrie]

Does that sync-down take into account the quality of your gear? If you have high-quality gear for your current level does it sync to the equivalent of high-quality for the synced level while normal quality would sync to the equivalent of normal quality for the synced level? Or does it just sync everything better than what the synced level could wear down to some standard set of stats it considers appropriate for that synced level?

I don't know of anyone who's gone in with both HQ and NQ pieces to test it. I did Copperbell on my BRD in full AF recently to help a FC member, and I was particularly destructive. I destroyed the spriggan adds like I was a Hummer tearing thru tissue paper.

[seekerofpower]

Yeah, level sync will lower the stats of your gear, but it will still be much higher than what the gear of that level would have. My FC mates were helping me level other classes after I hit 50 on my main. We went to Copperbell. My DRG friend (who was in DL and AF gear) used the 2 bar limit on the final boss and took a little more than 1/3 of its health in a single limit break.

[Urthdigger]

I believe that when gear is synced down, it will go down to the stat cap of gear for that item level and slot. So, rather than being higher than gear of that level, it's more that it's at the pinnacle of what gear of that level can provide.