Weighting ilevel calculations

[Nils1986]

It's like people in full i90 myth. You can never know before you played with them if they are good or not.

But i agree with OP, ilvl mechanics are poor right now.

[Fireseen]

Sum the ilvl of each item... divide by the amount of ilvl you input... = average.

I will agree with the weighting... Should have more lean with weapons, since that gives the most "ability/strength". you see that DL weapon guy, gonna be a bad day.

[Kimikryo]

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.

so just because you have a wall of i90 accesoirs, you can get more philo tomes than others?
Explain me your magix

[Hulan]

so just because you have a wall of i90 accesoirs, you can get more philo tomes than others?
Explain me your magix

It's not really that you can get more, just that you have gotten more. If you were, say, to run 2-3 Crystal Tower runs a week for some item (we'll say for your main job as to not contaminate this example), that's 400-600 Tomes of Philosophy for 100-150 Tomes of Mythology. Even assuming you get the rest of your tomes for the week in the most efficient way for Mythology, that's 5-6 Roulette to cap Mythology that week, or another 500-600 Philosophy.

So we'll say you make between 1000-1100 Tomes of Philosophy for each weekly unit (450) of Tomes of Mythology. It takes 4.2 weeks to get enough Tomes of Mythology to get full right side i90; or 4,200-4,660 Tomes of Philosophy. Left side Darklight costs 3,510 Philosophy. This means you have anywhere between 690 and 1150 tomes burning a hole in your pocket, and that's assuming you only bought accessories with Mythology and spent all of your philosophy on your left side on your main job (which we know isn't happening, because we already said that you're getting CT gear for that job as well).

Every job you level compounds that, by the time you've leveled 2 jobs to 50, I'd make an educated guess that you're sitting on a 3,000-5,000 Tome surplus. Of course, there are extenuating circumstances. If you are farming Extreme primals or early turn Coil, you'll get accessories faster, but chances are you aren't going to be doing either of those until you are done with at least your Darklight, which brings us back to the original numbers.