The fact of the matter is that we will always be at an impasse with the PvE players because the majority of them feel that (to quote another poster) "FFXIV is a PvE game." Therefore most of them just consider PvP a diversion and they want to be able to freely come and go without consequence or disadvantage. There's no other way to understand their position unless you take into account the fact that they want to have their cake and eat it too. These same players will spend days grinding out atma, tomestones and alexandrites for their Novus because they feel it's worth their time (presumably because it would provide them an advantage in Coil). But they don't want to grind the Wolves' Den for an advantage in PvP and damn it they don't want anyone else to have an advantage over them! Their position is simply hypocritical. inconsistent and untenable. Not a single one of them would claim that PvE should be "equal footing." In fact, most of the posters have spent their time arguing ad nauseum about how pissed they are that CT2 will drop Sands/Oils of Time or how the Echo Buff is making this game "easy mode for teh casuals oh noes!" This is hypocrisy at its finest.

Either way, this discussion is supposed to be about the iLevel Sync. If done properly, the sync should prevent players from having a gross amount of morale anyway so I don't understand the need to remove it entirely.