Ooh... new patch notes! ... Wait...

[AreeyaJaidee]

They're complaining that Poetics wasn't uncapped, I guess?

I dunno why people keep expecting that to happen.

Because they want it to happen. Better question, why shouldn't it happen? 1.0 to 2.0 was drastic change, 2.0 to 3.0 won't be as drastic, they've done many things not fitting pattern lately so the argument of "I know what SE will do because xyz reasons in past" is pretty moot. Never know.

[SlyTribal]

I so hope this isn't true. I am so very tired of having every new dungeon giving exclusively obsolete gear with no other purpose other than glamour. Can't we have somewhat challenging and somewhat rewarding dungeons for a change, instead of the mindless "grind trivial, crap-dropping dungeons for your weekly tome currency" deal?

It is true, they don't want to make 130 gear obsolete the second we enter Heavensward, it will last a long time still. However they're keeping the poetics cap so people can still make some use of the new 110+ gear on other jobs/new chars.

[Malevicton]

They're complaining that Poetics wasn't uncapped, I guess?

I dunno why people keep expecting that to happen.

Entitlement isn't all that complicated.

[Moonleg]

I'm not expecting it because they don't want us to unsub for two months after getting all our gear.

I think you are VASTLY overestimating how quickly the average player will grind out enough Poetics to buy 10 different Ironworks weapons and full armor for all their classes.

[MirielleLavandre]

While it is quite true that Yoshi said endgame gear would "not be replaced promptly at level 51 by any means" (via Massively article) - I think it is interesting that he chose lvl 51 in his answer. That made the fear of obsolete gear coming just as we start the expansion go away, but I'm willing to bet that the expansion will have many new armor sets, especially for those people who are new and just level right through 50-60 the same way we leveled from 40-50 // without stopping to "gear up". I'd wager that most of us didn't even care much what gear we had while leveling since it can be done so quickly (assuming we had level appropriate gear mixed with some dungeon drops). For those new players, it will be one continuous journey to 60 and I think the dungeon drops will reflect that.

I honestly believe that i130-135 won't last until level 60. At the most, I'd say level 55. After all, who wants to wear the same old gear for 10 levels. I'm not sure how long it will take to get from 50-60, but I do remember how in FFXI level 63 or so was actually HALF WAY or so to the cap of 75 (when 75 was cap). I know FF14 doesn't use that kind of xp curve, but with the expansion --- who knows. Perhaps I'm an anomaly (even though I should have NIN @i120 and WHM @ i130 by expansion release), but I'd willingly give those up for some nice looking, fun new armor designs no matter the ilvl since, again, when did we ever care about ilvl while leveling...

[AreeyaJaidee]

They wont lvl 1 to 60 very quickly with Steps locking them out of higher exp/hr thresholds.

[Zumi]

I honestly believe that i130-135 won't last until level 60. At the most, I'd say level 55. After all, who wants to wear the same old gear for 10 levels.

Because its leveling and probably fates or dungeons most people won't even bother to replace their i130 gear and just level up not get anything get to cap then start replacing gear.

[otarolgam]

Well, go beat Rafflesia then. That should be perfectly doable nowadays.

Thing is... I've tried a handful of times. And everything literally gets too hectic for me to see and do anything. Plus, I have a deep loathing for poison themed instances...

[Riepah]

Thing is... I've tried a handful of times. And everything literally gets too hectic for me to see and do anything. Plus, I have a deep loathing for poison themed instances...

Practice more. When I'm new to something it often overwhelms me too, I've some concentration issues and sociophobia, which make voice chat for example really hard to deal with. The first few times I went into turn 6 I thought there was sooo much stuff happening at once - nowadays it seems so easy in retrospect. The more you try it, the easier and more bearable it'll become - I can't speak for your loathing for poison, though. Is that a phobia of some sort too? Does it make you uncomfortable that the boss uses poisons or what?

[otarolgam]

Practice more. When I'm new to something it often overwhelms me too, I've some concentration issues and sociophobia, which make voice chat for example really hard to deal with. The first few times I went into turn 6 I thought there was sooo much stuff happening at once - nowadays it seems so easy in retrospect. The more you try it, the easier and more bearable it'll become - I can't speak for your loathing for poison, though. Is that a phobia of some sort too? Does it make you uncomfortable that the boss uses poisons or what?

Not a phobia... but then again, I'm not good with nature, so stuff with plants and bugs sorta irks me. Plus the worry that I'm not geared/knowledgeable enough...

Nnh, guess I can try to get something together with my FC...