Will player level be > ilvl?

[Teslo]

I'm hoping they gate the level caps with (people are gonna hate me for saying this... lmao) Maat (I would love to see him come back, and I think I'm the only one!) questlines to raise your level cap. Making the quest lines difficult to do in current endgame gear would ensure that people going through the game for the first time still have to do the older endgame content to gear up to break past that barrier, thus making the older content never actually become obsolete (Which happens in WoW every expansion).

I'm hoping they rework iLevel so that it doesn't just keep expanding exponentially WoW-style. They just had an iLevel crunch in WoW, scaling the iLevel of all items to a new curve, which brought everyone's damage/hitpoints/stats back to where they were, roughly, during Icecrown days. And in another couple of expansions they'll have to do this again, because they didn't change the system. Just crunched it. So I'm hoping FFXIV does something different.