Thread: In 3.0, is Level 51 ItemLevel 60? Or is Level 51 ItemLevel 150?

I'm mainly wishing to see all the 2.0 gears treadmill craps getting destroyed at 3.0, no more lame ilevels would very appreciated and a true horizontal gears progression mixing advanced and customizable stats that a Final Fantasy deserve.

At 3.0 the game will be 1 year and half old (in reality it will be 4 years and half including 1.0) and the project started in 2005.
I think FFXIV players were patient enough isn't, it's time for less temporary stuffs and more FF-ishs design when it come to gears & weapons progression.

Originally Posted by Felis

So something like 10 different gear sets with the exact same main stats but different 2nd stats?

the whole categorisation of primary stat and secondary stat is a shallow system anyway.

Originally Posted by Felis

So something like 10 different gear sets with the exact same main stats but different 2nd stats?

I see what you are trying there and I won't bait to the obvious "FFXI-hate" exemple

The main advantage of a customizable gear armory is to make them useful on the long road, it doesn't mean to have xx more different sets to gather but more likely having the possibility to be picky with your own decisions (gear wise), piece of gears that you can carry through your game playlife without discarding them every 3 months as a pure "glamour" or "desynthesize" gears trashs.

It would make the game more interesting by allowing the player to focus less on gears grind every new major patch and more on midcore / raiders contents that the game can offer to you... Trust me, it's very worthy, even more when you are able to see an unexpected 2 minutes and 30 secondes of FMV during an ending cutscene revealing to you the meaning of 2.0, the truth behind the crash of dalamud while answering many storyline questions, priceless moments.

I'm guessing they wont even bother to make equipment for level 51-59, and just have level 60 be the new "Level 50" so to speak where new tiers of I.lv will begin.

I think they should just end the item level growth with the addition of more levels and spread gear out with horizontal gear progression. (Just my opinion)

Originally Posted by NefarioCall

I expect it is the first, because the second would break everything

Game already works that way. Old stuff that people worked hard to get is overshadowed all the time. They could make the new AF2 sets from job quests be i150 and it would be ok. Old content would still level sync down to 110. Old 90-130 gear would become much easier to get, and be treated as non-essential glamor sets you can ignore and level right past.

Originally Posted by Rufalus

Old content would still level sync down to 110.

I think this is something people are forgetting. Older raids do tend to get negated to vanity (see: BCoB), though maybe they'll add decent gear to Savage FCoB for the expansion that's usable @ 60. Otherwise, I don't really see a problem with going beyond i130 even as early as lvl 51.

Originally Posted by NefarioCall

I expect it is the first, because the second would break everything, but i don't think there has been any confirmation on this, and i do not know much how it has been done in other MMOs. Can any one enlighten me? Thanks.

Item level 122. Or was it 112? I should clean my crystal ball.