Quote Originally Posted by Wobi View Post
This means a new player will join and level to 60/75 or whatever they make the new cap at and have better gear from leveling dungeons than people who had a full set of High Allagan.

They will eventually settle on a long term cap but prepare to see butt-hurt people if/when the cap is raised.
Annnnd FFXIV players will have to get used to it. New expansion = obsoleted gear in every single major mmo except XI, and it's the reason XI stagnated. Congratulations on spending time to get all that high Allagan gear - now get the newest gear through the newest raid in the newest storyline.

I agree we'll see some butt hurt, but it shouldn't be to the degree we saw in XI. I also don't see any settling of a long-term cap happening here - it's not possible with the way gearing works. We can't do sidegrades and macro things in like we did in XI (which admittedly wasn't something the developers had foreseen, but it worked out well for them). The only way to go is up unless there do a MAJOR retool of the entire armory and class system.