Weighting ilevel calculations

[Lithera]

I've just been sitting here wondering...

Is there any reason every gear slot carries the same weight when calculating ilevel? It's just add up your gear ilevels and divide by 12 (Unless you have a shield or are wearing a cloak/tin can). If we want to stop people front loading their ilevel with i90 offclass accessories there needs to be a weight applied to each slot. Weapon would carry the highest weight followed by main armor slots, then belt, then right side accessories. We shouldn't be able to hit ilevel 67 with a 55 GC Weapon and AF gear. There's quite a bit of difference between that i67 character and one in mostly Darklight and a Garuda Wep...

[Kuwagami]

average ilevel is average ilevel. Not accurate but we have to deal with it

[StouterTaru]

You divide by 13, not 12, and items that take up 2 slots get counted twice.

In general, upgrading from ilvl 70 to 90, you will see the biggest stat increases for visible armor > weapon > belt > accessories > shield

[BlueMage]

Yeah, I agree that going off average iLv can be deceptive. Someone with a lower iLv can be stronger than someone with the same or even a higher iLv, depending on which pieces are i90 and which are i70, for example.

Basing standards off base stats (STR, VIT, etc), while not perfect, would probably have been a better measure of power level, which is all anyone cares about iLv for anyway.

[SarcasmMisser]

I agree, which is why I still don't hold much stock in ilevel and just inspect like the old days.

[Nekodar]

You divide by 13, not 12, and items that take up 2 slots get counted twice.

In general, upgrading from ilvl 70 to 90, you will see the biggest stat increases for visible armor > weapon > belt > accessories > shield

Should be clarified here that 2H-weapons are counted as taking up 2 slots, which seems to not be obvious considering how many times I've had to explain how the games ilvl calculation works to others.
Personally I think it's obvious since with 2H weapon (or tool) you can't equip a shield (or off-hand tool).

[Lithera]

You divide by 13, not 12, and items that take up 2 slots get counted twice.

In general, upgrading from ilvl 70 to 90, you will see the biggest stat increases for visible armor > weapon > belt > accessories > shield

13 only if equipping a shield otherwise it's 1 Wep, 5 Main Armor, 1 Belt, and 5 accessories for 12. For tin can or robes you divide by 11. They do not get counted twice. That's beside the point though. The issue is it's just a flat average when as you said you see a much bigger stat increase from the weapon and main armor slots and therefore there's a glaring difference between an i67 character with GC wep, AF gear and a wall of i90 accessories (which may or may not be for their current class)*-, and an i67 character with a bunch of lvl 49 accessories but an i90 wep and myth armor, or even an i67 with a Garuda wep and mostly Darklight.

[Nekodar]

13 only if equipping a shield otherwise it's 1 Wep, 5 Main Armor, 1 Belt, and 5 accessories for 12. For tin can or robes you divide by 11. They do not get counted twice. That's beside the point though. The issue is it's just a flat average when as you said you see a much bigger stat increase from the weapon and main armor slots and therefore there's a glaring difference between an i67 character with GC wep, AF gear and a wall of i90 accessories (which may or may not be for their current class)*-, and an i67 character with a bunch of lvl 49 accessories but an i90 wep and myth armor, or even an i67 with a Garuda wep and mostly Darklight.

The total iLevel is always divided by 13, and the average is floored.
Can easily be proven by trying to equip various pieces.
Equip Thyrus Zenith for example, and leave all other slots empty.
Ilevel shown by game will be 13.
Now equip Curtana Zenith only (not the corresponding Shield), and the iLevel shown by game will be 6.

X-slot gear counts X times.


That the iLevel average is largely meaningless in many situations is a different issue.

[StouterTaru]

13 only if equipping a shield otherwise it's 1 Wep, 5 Main Armor, 1 Belt, and 5 accessories for 12. For tin can or robes you divide by 11. They do not get counted twice.

Equip a 2-handed weapon (level 13 or higher) and nothing else. Use your method to figure out what it should call your ilvl, then use mine. You are wrong.

i67 character with GC wep, AF gear and a wall of i90 accessories

When do you even see this? By the time you have a wall of i90 accessories, darklight gear is incredibly easy to get for alt jobs.

[Shaone]

Could have a weighted ilvl calculation based on tome costs, as there's a more or less proportional investment vs return (at least on mainstat), although weapon is a slightly different matter. I came up with a spreadsheet a while back in 2.0 that did this, before ilvl was shown in game... think I may have posted on forums somewhere.

For getting rid of "accessory cheating" to boost ilvl, could ignore from calculation if that class/job the character is on would be unable to need on that accessory class. (e.g. don't count fending for non-tanks, but do allow maiming accessories for monk, etc) Or count them at half the ilvl.

That would prevent ilvl cheating to a degree, but it's not really a big deal to check someone and notice that they have wrong gear on for their class, and ilvl really doesn't say much about a player anyway.

So overall not really bothered, but I don't really do much stuff with random players, so is probably less of a concern for me than some people.