Gear, iLevel, and different build

[Lord_Zlatan]

I'm going to preface this thread with one word: HOPE.

So, a lot of people are a bit saddened by the fact that CT, Hard Mode Dungeons, Extreme Primals, and Pharos Sirius loot will be at the lowest iLvl 60 and at the highest iLvl 90 (Allagan weapons getting buffed to iLvl 95).

I, too, am saddened by this. I will not be saddened by this however if certain things happen.

Perhaps the new gear will focus on different stats. Perhaps the new gear will allow people t start min/maxing different stats etc., etc. For example: lets say that the new Extreme Primal weapons have lesser secondary stats but are nutty with the amount of Skill Speed on them...

Could this be the beginning of non linear gear progression? I hope so.

[Okunbunu]

Doubtful considering Yoshi said that the reason i90 people should do it is for vanity purposes..

[Lord_Zlatan]

Doubtful considering Yoshi said that the reason i90 people should do it is for vanity purposes..

I know... maybe I'm just in denial.

But i think there needs to be more "paths" for you to gear your class. not just BiS or iLvl 90/95. Its too streamlined.

[Lord_Zlatan]

btw, is that the Allagan Helm?

[saber_alter]

it is.

and seeing the how the ct gear looks aesthetically...definitely meant for vanity.

[Lord_Zlatan]

it is.

and seeing the how the ct gear looks aesthetically...definitely meant for vanity.

I have not seen it yet. I have no doubt it looks nice though. And for me, Vanity is very important. I also think that i should be able to gear up in different ways, and I think the benefits of this go without saying.

[lyndwyrm]

I won't be too hopeful on this, but some gear already does that. The only specific example I have is the strategos ring has more spell speed than the Darklight healing ring, and is ilv60 compared to ilv70. But then..... the astral ring has materia caps of much better (SS specifically is only +12, you can add +12 CRIT, and it comes with +8 DET), and the DL ring has 3 more PIE 1 more MND but is only 2 behind on SS.

So, I don't think the new ilv60 gear will be able to compete with the ilv70 crafted, but it may at least look unique, maybe dye-able too.

The ilv80 though.... may be able to compete with AF2 or allagan on specific stats, but I would still expect them to be overall worse (defense will almost certainly be lower).
Although, the ilv90 EM primal weapons will, assuming they're stated like the previous ones, be great for fighting the same primal due to the elemental resistances, but again, probably worse than the relic+1 overall, because of those resistances. And the crafted ilv70 gear (even with 5 materia) is still generally worse than the ilv90 gear because of stat caps and defense.

[saber_alter]

I have not seen it yet. I have no doubt it looks nice though. And for me, Vanity is very important. I also think that i should be able to gear up in different ways, and I think the benefits of this go without saying.

look at the eorzea collection video. shows almost all of them.

[Lord_Zlatan]

look at the eorzea collection video. shows almost all of them.

Where can I get this? and thank you ^^

[Ryios]

The reason I'm going to do CT is to gear out alts on gear that no one needs, which is 100% of our group lol....

I just hope the 3 groups of 8 in CT each get their own loot pool. That way if I que with my BCB static we don't compete on loot with the other 16.