Average Item Level Not Good Enough?

[Niwashi]

in any case, i don't think a depreciation value starting at a difference of 21 item levels or higher would be too strict. so like if you have on the left IL100 gear and on the right IL120 accessories, you are okay. but if either side has a greater difference, then one of the pieces will contribute less to your AIL. this just an example, though.

More complicated than necessary.

Technically if you really wanted to be hard on it, it could take an average based on both the mean (what it does now) and the median (the actual ilevel of the middle item if you lined them up by item level.) presumably the median requirement would be lower by some number of ilevels.

That still doesn't take into account which pieces are the most important to your effectiveness.

It should just change IL requirement to min MAIN STAT requirement

That misses the Damage stat on your weapon, which is really the most important stat of all for any class.


I agree with the problem this thread complains of, but think the best solution is a weighted average, emphasizing the most important pieces of gear. Right now, the only weighting applied to our average iLvl is the fact that multi-slot equipment is counted once for each slot it takes up. In addition to that, they should be weighing weapons as greater than armour which is greater than jewelry. (If they wanted to get even more specific, they could even split it out farther along the lines of: main weapon > off-hand > body/legs > head/hands/feet > belt > jewelry, but really the most important part is that weapons > armour > jewelry if they want to keep it fairly simple.)