Is this the road they will continue to take with items?

[morlin]

I remember spending a decent amount of time on getting ilvl 80 gear back in january. Just recently decided to start playing again and noticed there is a full set of ilvl 90 gear easily obtainable through a couple of hours of hunting. WTF?

If there was one thing i heavily disliked with WoW was the gear reset every time they release an expansion, and now ffxiv is picking up on it too.

Personally i enjoy gearing my character with the endgame gear because it feels accomplished. Atleast in games like FFXI where it actually meant something.

I'd just like to know whether or not i should care anymore if i can just wait for the next patch and get previous seasons endgame gear in an hour. Too boring

[Azper]

Well that's been the trend for the past year, so I'd expect it to continue.

[SeraviEdalborez]

Welcome to a vertical progression MMO. Don't get attached to anything.

[kyuven]

Welcome to a vertical progression MMO. Don't get attached to anything.

Unless you think it looks pretty. In which case, invest in prisms.

[Shougun]

Welcome to a vertical progression MMO. Don't get attached to anything.

Without special attributes (chance to attack X more times) and without much stat variation (just make sure you have enough accuracy for X content, or all damage for Y) the only thing left unique to gear is looks. For that, I suppose glamour system has you covered.

I'd like to see mechanically unique qualities/more of them, but right now I don't think there is much to miss moving from gear to gear since the only thing you lose you can regain through glamour XD.

[Tupsi]

Welcome to a vertical progression MMO. Don't get attached to anything.

^ This is the "standard", it's very very unlikely to change now.

[Gardes]

Just wait till expansion. It's gonna get worse. Experienced players will either trounce lvl 51-60 (if the new lvl cap is 60) mobs because they are over gearing the monsters by so much it's not even funny or they start handing out i110-130+ gear to new players as they level up through quests from 1 to 60 and you'll have new players reach lvl 60 and have i130 but barely know what they're doing.

[KingOfAbyss]

Just wait till expansion. It's gonna get worse. Experienced players will either trounce lvl 51-60 (if the new lvl cap is 60) mobs because they are over gearing the monsters by so much it's not even funny or they start handing out i110-130+ gear to new players as they level up through quests from 1 to 60 and you'll have new players reach lvl 60 and have i130 but barely know what they're doing.

^ This.

I really don't understand where Square Enix is going with that in mind.

I am expecting a lot from the Expansion, I hope it won't be as easy as it is right now. Luckily Ninja will sustain me a bit..

There is a limit to how much to cater to new players and thinking it's their first MMO.

First timers can research on this forum and even google for info about the game and gear and skill etc.. and if SE keep thing separated, they will get 2.x content, so they will be fine Yoshi. Trust me ^^

No point of making maps lvl 51-60 if we'll still obliterate them and not having a sense of danger from them.

Sigh.. Come on Devs, its a great game, now it's time to bring the polish and make it shine!

[AdamuKun322]

There really isn't much of a gearing path in this game sadly. And I do agree with y'all on the iLv of the current gear. It's almost too easy when slicing through mobs now.

[DefendPopPunk]

Yeah I kind of miss games where you would spend a while earning a really great piece of gear that remained relevant for a long time. Right now, you can get some pretty great gear quite easily, and the best gear in the game doesn't seem too huge of an upgrade over it so it's not a huge deal if you don't get it. It wouldn't matter anyway, as the next update will instantly render it obsolete. Someone seriously needs to think about stopping the ilvl increases and instead focus on other aspects of player/gear progression.