White's the new Purple - A look forward

[Kazamoto]

Currently, the Highest iLevel item is 95.

As we know, the level cap is 50.

This already gives us a 45 level gap between gear, and player.

With 2.2 coming, the current best guess is iLevel 110-115 gear.

The devs have stated that a character level increase will happen someday.

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How will this be handled?

(using current gaps)
Assuming they bump it to 100 (SE has been a fan of even numbers lately)
Will they just skip adding gear in-between?

Why farm/buy character-level 70 gear, when someone already is full i90?

Or will they maintain the gaps, and release c70-i115 gear to use until you level enough to use c100-i150 gear?

For that matter, why do we have gear that is 40 levels ahead of character level, if they plan on raising the level cap.

If they don't plan on raising the level cap, why have a level cap?

Why not have all stats and skills at lv1, and track all progression through iLevel?

The way they have it now, more levels is just a pointless grind.

And NPC buyable white gear of the future will be i100, and better than allagan/zenith.

The longer we go without raising the level cap, the larger the gap will be between Character level and Item Level.

By the time character levels increase, we could in theory be wearing i200 gear...