The new Allagan set of items needs to have a small customization option.

[NeoAmon]

Well that is a major design flaw, now if you want the top gear you HAVE to do Coil. Mixing and matching gear was fun, way to turn the game into even more of a weekly clear.

Nah it is not. You can't just have the best gear in the game handed to everyone freely. As for the mixing and matching, this thread aims to have a new customization option .

[Galactimus]

Well that is a major design flaw!

I agree that mixing and matching the Myth and Allagan gear provided some much needed end-game customization for your character. You could raise and lower your accuracy to increase a different stat or give up huge chunks of Parry for Determination when it came to DPS races; which was nice. However, I don't agree that content that can take weeks to master, months to obtain, and gear that has to be lotted for against other players should be the same ilevel as gear you obtain casually with your eyes closed. I think YoshiP's decision was correct to make the Second Coil far more appealing. But I also agree that more customization would be nice.

If High Allagan armor does turn out to be the only i110 gear set I'm sure it'll give you all the accuracy (etc) you need. If not, players will complain a bit and the stats will be changed to address this a week later.

[Naunet]

Nay he stated the entire set will be at a higher Ilvl. The reason was to motivate players to clear the second coil.

That's really quite a silly decision and makes gearing up even more thoughtless. At least when the tomestone gear and Allagan gear were the same ilvl, you had some options when it came to secondary stats.

Nah it is not. You can't just have the best gear in the game handed to everyone freely. As for the mixing and matching, this thread aims to have a new customization option .

No gear was handed to anyone freely. It takes time to grind up mythology tomestones, and depending on your job, a lot of the Allagan stuff was better than the myth stuff because of the secondary stats. Having the tomestone gear on par base stat-wise with Allagan gear gave a much needed reprieve in case RNG was unfriendly. With how it's going to be in 2.2, it's entirely possible that someone could never get a single piece of ilvl 110 Allagan gear, even if they regularly run the second Coil. That's just not right.

[PArcher]

With how it's going to be in 2.2, it's entirely possible that someone could never get a single piece of ilvl 110 Allagan gear, even if they regularly run the second Coil. That's just not right.

If we had the system the OP wants in 2.0/1, I would still be using the DL/CT/whatever-other-i80-would-be-there feet, hands and chest on my DRG (my main. And no, haven't seen the chest or gloves yet, neither the T4 ring, and only cleared T5 first last week), still have an i80 weapon (since we wouldn't have been able to +1 the Relics), have had 2 i90 rings for only a month, and would have only upgraded my helm to i90 last week.

RNG sucks. Nothing else to say about it. To have options, for better or worse, is, well, better.

What would be a "better" option is to have Allagan have the "better" secondaries, Tome gear "worse". Not to leave everything up to RNG.

[eagledorf]

What would be a "better" option is to have Allagan have the "better" secondaries, Tome gear "worse". Not to leave everything up to RNG.

I don't really mind that Allagan gear is the best in the game, but it would drive me absolutely insane if they don't tune the new coil to be cleared in i100 gear (preferably less so we can work on it in a mix of gear without waiting months to get full Sol-gear). I know several people (mostly tanks for some reason....) that have never seen a single coil drop despite clearing it weekly for months. If this had translated instead to clearing t1-4 weekly and never being able to down Twintania it would have driven me batty!