Please reconsider ilvl 60 drops

[SynMaris]

Would be nice to see some gear offset DL and such, have a nice mix and match.

[the_vanity]

In the mean time, nobody cares about crafted gear...

[zakalw3]

You guys stating that making it i70 would upset you because you had to grind out your Darklight are missing the fact you'd still have to grind out the new gear.

Anyone with full DL will find this gear obsolete from the start, I guess vanity slots will fix that though.

[WingsofWar]

2.1 Gear Progression...

WP - i55 Dropped (Gear & Weapon)
AK - i60 Dropped (Gear Only)
PS - i60 Dropped (Unknown)
PRIMAL HM - i70 Dropped (Weapon Only)
>----i70 Bought with Phil / Crafted (Gear & Weapon)
>----i80 Relic (Weapon)
CT - i80 Dropped (Gear & unknown if Weapon drops)
PRIMAL EX - i80 Dropped (Weapons Only)
>----i90 bought with myth (Gear & Weapon )
BCoB - i95 Dropped (Gear & Weapon)

I don't see any issues, with the balance of drops. Sure a PS - i65 drop might have been more acceptable, but really its not that big of an issue. Only people who will go bat shit is people who have spent countless hours already farming AK for their i70 and i90 equipment, like myself, but in a greater scheme of things this new content/changes are whats good for the entire playerbase including new players or fresh 50s.

Its likely that PS will drop only i60 weapons.. to match up with the i60 gear set from AK.

IMO I think id have liked to see content spread like this

WP - i55
AK - i60
PS - i65
PRIMAL HM - i70 WEAP
>----i75 Bought with Phil (DL)
>----i80 Relic WEAP
PRIMAL EXT - i80 WEAP
>----i80 Crafted (darsteel/vanya/etc)
CT - i85
>---i90 Bought with Myth
>---i90 Relic +1 WEAP
BCoB - i95

[Kazamoto]

^ Confirmed its only the BCoB weapon getting bumped to 95.

Greetings,

According to the stream, Yoshida did in fact mention this upgrade to item level 95 was to be for Allagan weapons only due to the difficulty of turn 5, whereas the text on the Japanese and English Q&A post indicated equipment in general.

[BalthierLove]

You can't satisfy everyone Square Enix, just remember this.

[synaesthetic]

As a player who has geared two jobs in Darklight, I am completely, totally pissed-off and furious that the new dungeon and the two hardmodes are item level 60.

WHY? We already have Amdapor Keep. Why are these dungeons still that easy?

What the hell, Squee? Hardmodes are supposed to be HARD, not "oh, AK with the scenery changed."

TBH, we should have gotten Pharos Sirius at ilvl70, and the two hardmodes at ilvl80. Don't even get me started on how badly you completely screwed Crystal Tower.

[Estellios]

You know having them drop i60 weapons would actually be really nice, it would give us more ways people can get weapons that are decent enough for Titan while working on gearing up for it, instead of doing ifrit/garuda several times for the small stone reward as a consolation if you aren't lucky enough for your weapon to drop.

[Zumi]

The objective of Pharos Sirius is to give you more options for getting myth.

[Ryios]

hardmodes drop ilvl60? Really?

Normal modes drop Ilvl 60.... What was the logic on that...

SE got their stuff all twisted. If Crystal Tower had come out on schedule there would be il 80 in game already and they could make hard mode dungeons drop ilvl 70 because replacing darklight would be no big deal.

But CT is coming out late and they don't want to ruin darklight...

Why not just make hard mode dungeons il 70 and make darklight il 75 and crystal tower il 80 and bcb il 90 with an il 95 wep on twintantia and leave af 1.5 alone.

Who is SE making these changes for? The 50% sub base that already got bored and quit?