iLvl Inflation

[Zourin]

This is what you call 'power creep'.

As it stands, you can pretty much shortcut straight to iLvl 70 right now (within a couple months of 2.2, straight to ilvl 90) with crafted gear. Squeenix doesn't have many options available besides simply continuing to deprecate Ilvl 50-90 gear into oblivion. With uncapped CT, iLvl 80 becomes readily available for those of durable constitution in the meantime, given its relative ease with the sheer amount of overgeared people looking for an easy source of equipment for off-classes that may not be 50 yet.

[Mychael]

This is what you call 'power creep'.

As it stands, you can pretty much shortcut straight to iLvl 70 right now (within a couple months of 2.2, straight to ilvl 90) with crafted gear. Squeenix doesn't have many options available besides simply continuing to deprecate Ilvl 50-90 gear into oblivion. With uncapped CT, iLvl 80 becomes readily available for those of durable constitution in the meantime, given its relative ease with the sheer amount of overgeared people looking for an easy source of equipment for off-classes that may not be 50 yet.

And with myth uncapped, i90 is the same boat. The problem isn't so short-term (with the irrelevence of 50-90 gear) but more long-term, when they add levels 51-75 (or whatever) and we're already up to i250.

[rex1976]

you guys make some valid points. I didn't read all the posts so if someone already said this i apologize.

i see ilvl as just a way to filter out how well geared people are while using PF. just pretend it doesn't say what the ilvl is and all of the things you are worried about will disappear except for your ability to filter out poorly geared players in difficult dungeons using party finder.