Increasing stats and ilevels

[Jinko]

Yes I'm aware of how it works in wow. However, I think a possible solution to this would be to gate players from skipping over a lot of content by forcing them to gear up to complete a quest that allows them to move to the next level cap. It shouldn't need to be full raid gear, unless it's made much easier to get I suppose, but just require iLvL 80-ish or something or maybe iLvL 90 once myth is even quicker to get. A modest iLvL players have to work for to move to the next content. If you did this then new players leveling up in the future will have a reason to do the large amount of level 50 content we're all doing right now.

The only pitfall I can think of right now might be players could buy expansion crafted gear to skip that content but if SE just makes it require level 51+ then it wouldn't be an issue.

I am in no way advocating something has hard or as tedious as FFXI and I didn't mean to turn this into a thread where everyone can reminisce about how awful it was.

This is exactly what they do right now, content has both a level requirement and a gear level requirement, also it has a story requirement on top of that.

I really don't think we need anything more to inhibit players progression.

I see no reason why it matters about leap frogging old content anyway, if a developer/publisher is happy to throw their old content away then that's their choice, I don't see any reason to make new players do everything I did, as long as they are enjoying the game is all that matters.

Some content will always be there in the form of quests and class based content.

One of the biggest issues I have with this game right now is how some content (Titan ex) has cut off a large part of the player base from new content, obviously an elitist minded person would say well good we don't want them in Ifrit, moogle and Levi extreme, however it can be pretty frustrating to have 70% of the 2.2 content (this is including Coil2) behind a closed door.

If they keep this up they will end up with no players left because lets face it large group of players can't get past Titan let alone Twintania.

Edit:- This has nothing to do with the OP's post really so sorry about that.