The new Ilvl

[Oscillate_Wildly]

but maaaan man....dat r..n..g. ive been coiling as blm since october. i have NEVER seen the caster chest drop.....like i've never even had the chance to roll need on it. -.-

Amen. I've been watching out for the healing gloves and dragoon pants/belt and they just won't drop for us. Plenty of accessories for every class, but never any actual gear. Thankfully with the patch we'll be able to farm for them though. D:<

I can't even imagine how brutal the 6-9 rng will be. I feel like its bad enough when I hear about T5 tripple weapon drops 3 weeks in a row, you know?

[Penguinmayhem]

I'm all for allagan being higher ilevel than tome gear. People who don't run Coil do not need i90 or i110 gear.

Need is irrelevant. People will always want the highest level possible gear because it's the best, regardless of what they do with it. People want to have The Best Gear In The Game. They don't want anything else because everything else isn't The Best Gear In The Game and is therefore worthless.

[BlueMage]

I'm all for allagan being higher ilevel than tome gear. People who don't run Coil do not need i90 or i110 gear.

Tome gear is kind of a soft "easy mode" for Coil. Take i90 gear for example. People on the "cutting edge" went into Coil with i70s, and over the weeks would get Coil drops and myth pieces which would make things easier and easier to progress further. Some people didn't have what it took to get past T1/2 though in the first month or two of the game, but nowadays since MANY players have i90 sets from myth at least, you see people PUGing Coil all the time, even the types of people who normally don't or wouldn't do something like Coil.

[Richiealvian]

Well, they do alleviate the NEVER BIS problem by unlocking the previous tiers. I imagine if you fail to get the Allagan 2 from 6-9 you'll have to farm them when 2.4 comes out. It hurts non-static, but the way it is now it really promotes statics, because an allagan drop=overall party powerup. Which I like.. But I understand how hard it is to form a static, a consistent one even moreso.

[Loony_BoB]

I really wish they would keep iLvl in line with actual player level, it just seems rather ridiculous now, having something that much further ahead of the player level...

[HeavensHell]

I really wish they would keep iLvl in line with actual player level, it just seems rather ridiculous now, having something that much further ahead of the player level...

Guess you have not played another mmorpg with item levels, item levels are meant as a bridge to connect higher content with the higher the item level the higher the attributes and weapon damage roll= the higher content your potentially able to due item level lockouts and gear check fights which so far 14 has been very generous with unlike other mmorpgs.

[NeoAmon]

Ilvl is just an ID. They would have called it something else like tier 3 for example. Don't get attached too much to the numbers as the stat increase is not huge even going from i90 to i110.

[Loony_BoB]

Guess you have not played another mmorpg with item levels, item levels are meant as a bridge to connect higher content with the higher the item level the higher the attributes and weapon damage roll= the higher content your potentially able to due item level lockouts and gear check fights which so far 14 has been very generous with unlike other mmorpgs.

It's not about the other MMORPG, though, it's about what I want for this game.

[Penguinmayhem]

The reason they put out higher level items rather than upping the PC level cap is because progressively upping the level cap too regularly leads to situations like WoW where they are almost technologically incapable of programming a boss with enough HP to be a challenge to players with stats in the seven figures.

[Morgan_Leah]

Need is irrelevant. People will always want the highest level possible gear because it's the best, regardless of what they do with it. People want to have The Best Gear In The Game. They don't want anything else because everything else isn't The Best Gear In The Game and is therefore worthless.

Sure but they can raid the new coil now to obtain it instead of easy 4 man dungeons.