Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XIII! (Item Levels)

[CriticalCrystal]

Is the new ilvl equipment going to be rendered useless in 6 months?

[Synra]

Last I heard, the Myth cap will be removed entirely in 2.2

While I understand the need for higher levels of equipment, are you not concerned that this will make a LOT of current equipment and content obsolete and undesirable?

[Aghamyr]

Do you plan to add item level increase because of materia melding on equipement ?

[Scox]

Will we be able to increase the item level of our Primal weapons or our existing Relic Zeniths?

[MagicalBlade]

Will there be in increase in the Meldable Crafting Gear and the removal of this ridiculous limitation on what can be melded to it?

Meldable Crafting Gear should keep up with the Major Dungeon and Mob Drops. Looking at the progression of gear introduction, this has not been the case. Level 90 Dungeon/Notorious Mob drops should require level 90 crafting gear be available. Additionally, if someone wants to gear up as the Rock of Gibraltar with 5 level 5 Vitality Materia in every gear slot, so be it as there is always a trade off to the various stats. Maybe they could solo a Titan Extreme Solo Mob but it may take them 10 hours to do it. Who cares, it is what provides the bragging right. Right now, everything is essentially cookie cutter, i.e.. booorrrriiinnngggggggg.

[Jo_ker76]

Will the I80 gears be moved to other locations for players to be able to attain so we don't have to deal with the behaviors in labrynth of the ancients?

[riktir]

i love relics and how you have to do the quest to get them , and by the looks of it there be more quest to makes them stronger, do you plan on keeping the relics that we have and just upgrading them thru quests or do you plan on making it so later on we'll just throw these away and swap them up for new ones. i honestly have to say i wouldn't like to just throw them away, but then again the option of new weapons is interesting. that being said if plan are to keep relics by upgrading do you plan on doing limit breaks for each class specific for each weapon provided they have the upgraded relic, down the road, for example monk - pummel, black mage - ultima, etc. thank you for your time.


p.s. anything new on companions?

[Reborn]

Any Chance we could have some horizontal gear progression instead of just bigger numbers?

Item Levels are a good judge of a gear's ability, but at the moment, it's virtually all that matters to gear, with only 2 real options for gear (Myth, Allagan) and probably only 2 options in 2.2 (New Tomes/ New Coils)

[Rufalus]

What is the item level of the leviathan weapon, and how does it compare to weapons from coil 9.

[Shirai]

Will the relic weapons get another upgrade in 2.2, and if so will they also get a different glow/effect when engaged in combat?