The new Ilvl

[Lemon8or]

Ifrit -> Necklace
I guess Good King Moggle Mog will drop chokers

Ifrit drops bracelet. And btw chokers and necklace are the same.

[Merle]

Ifrit drops bracelet. And btw chokers and necklace are the same.

My bad, i tried to say "Ifrit-> bracelet"

[Gumbercules]

While I can sympathize with your point (especially given mostly insipid coil RNG luck up until now for myself), the idea that dudes who are only running WP every week in even better gear every single week, while WP stays the same or gets easier due to more gear, to obtain the best gear doesn't really warm me up. At all. It was annoying enough with i90 of myth and allagan. Now that we're getting an additional ilvl upgrade for our gears whilst the dungeons themselves just keep on getting easier for our gear levels, I at least like the idea that SE wants to make us do some actual hard content for the gear.

Agreed,it also opens up future CT content to be on par with the "current" tombstone rewards. Which with a once a week deal is good imo.

First turns for the new BC tier is likely designed around ilvl 90-100 entry and as such i don't see "casual" players being left behind since you can get farther geared into 100 and have an "easier" time of the entry turns.

Same will apply to those that are participating in coil in a week by week basis, and upgrade here, and upgrade there, will get you farther and "allow" you to clear progression.

don't get me wrong i love BiS as much as the next person, but BiS is what you "aim" for while participating in progression not the entry into progression.

One other thing on reinhearts translation it kinda sounded like tome gear might have a "upgradable" path? might just be me. (maybe something like tokens from coil that you can use to boost soldiery? although yoshi mentioned leviathan in this part i think.)

another thing i noticed is that the gerolt's masterworks seem to be soldery based, is that going to be along with the AF2? maybe that is their way to go about itemization. (still wouldn't solve coil itemization though :P)

[Fireseen]

Allagan"2" loot SHOULD be higher. Should have been higher for t1-9 but it wasn't. At least now it is correct.

[Philossophy]

Q13: Will the item level be the same for equipment obtained from the Second Binding Coil of Bahamut and the equipment you can obtain with Allagan tomestones of soldiery?

A13: The item levels will not be necessarily be the same.

For me, this doesnt say that all items from t6-9 will have a higher item lvl then the new tomestones, it says that not all item lvls are equal.

[Finuve]

Coil gear being higher would be fine if it werent for being at the mercy of BOTH RNG and lockouts

28 clears I think and we still have never seen the tank necklace from turn 1, or the striking gloves from turn 2

[Merle]

Coil gear being higher would be fine if it werent for being at the mercy of BOTH RNG and lockouts

28 clears I think and we still have never seen the tank necklace from turn 1, or the striking gloves from turn 2

This. One week we had a setup with 2 melees (me as monk and one drg). BOTH chests from T1 and T2 dropped DRG gear. I've been trying coil as monk for 4 months-> got gloves and boots of striking. One random pug goes as drg---> 4 drops in 1 run. Bullshit

[horaiyo]

Coil gear being higher would be fine if it werent for being at the mercy of BOTH RNG and lockouts

28 clears I think and we still have never seen the tank necklace from turn 1, or the striking gloves from turn 2

Yup, I'm somewhere around 6 months waiting on casting boots.

[GhaleonM]

The RNG with gear dropping is nothing new to MMOs. Why are people acting like this is such a travesty, this is the life of raiding. Lockouts and random gear dropping and hoping your piece drops is a part of raiding, always has been always will be. At no point did SE EVER say they were planning on doing something different in this regard.

Maybe your gear will drop fast maybe it won't, but you'll always have something to strive for so either you will keep raiding or quit. If you quit...peace out!

[Kaaylryn]

I do like the gear being gradual increases for difficulty of content. Best gear should be from Coil. However, if they homogenize gear again, say caster gear: ss + det, or ss + crit, may not be good for both summoner and black mage per se. Or whm and sch, SS vs crit, det vs piety, etc. I don't see this having a good ending unless they drop tokens for specific class gear. Unless they homogenize the need for specific stats for specified spells, I think this may be a problem.
As it is now, BIS scholar is almost all Myth tome gear. I don't see how this will be effective for both healing classes or both casting classes. I am sure other dps or even tank gear will have the same concerns. Maybe there is something I am missing?