Which gear is better?

[IceSpear]

Right now I'm rank 16 so I can't equip the high rank Ilevel180 pvp gear so I was wondering, is it better to use the Ilevel110 pvp gear or use the Ilevel180 PvE gear?

[Stupiduglytaru]

Pve gear has pretty much h been the best to use, there are only a few pvp pieces that are useful.

The i110 is useless due to the i150 cap.

For dps all you are really looking for is secondary stats, det + crit. Acc is a wasted stat due to the low acc requirement in pvp, bearing in mind you still need a little

There's only a couple of decent i180 pvp pieces I.e for mnk pvp head + stre ring

The bis depending on job will consist of a mix of law i180 pvp gear alex drops crafted and esto gear.

[GotSapper]

Am I incorrect in thinking that wearing i180 PvP gear essentially removes the i150 sync for you? Since you are synced to i150, and the 30 morale raises the i180 pieces up 30 ilevels, is this the best option? The tooltips are confusing in that I still don't know how this works or if PvP materia works in PvP zones or not.

[Risvertasashi]

Am I incorrect in thinking that wearing i180 PvP gear essentially removes the i150 sync for you? Since you are synced to i150, and the 30 morale raises the i180 pieces up 30 ilevels, is this the best option? The tooltips are confusing in that I still don't know how this works or if PvP materia works in PvP zones or not.

No-- ilvl always syncs to 150. In Frontlines, materia never works at any ilvl. In most Den modes, materia never works at any ilvl.

[Tila]

No-- ilvl always syncs to 150. In Frontlines, materia never works at any ilvl. In most Den modes, materia never works at any ilvl.

Isnt the only thing that morale does is allow you a higher ilvl in pvp?

[Risvertasashi]

Isnt the only thing that morale does is allow you a higher ilvl in pvp?

...I'm not an expert and it's possible I'm wrong, but I thought that morale bonus was capped by the ilvl sync. So if you had an i140 piece of armor with 20 morale, it would only be equivalent to i150 in Seal Rock.

If I'm misunderstanding it, someone please do correct me.

[Vandril]

The Morale bonus first brings the gear's item level up, THEN that gear is brought down to the cap.

So, no. Morale does not increase the item level above the current 150 - or any - item level cap.

[Urthdigger]

Why do they even have morale anymore? It is literally useless in every single game mode at this point.

[Buff_Archer]

I wish they'd at least let us put in some of the PVP materia available from the materia vendor that must be really bored all these months. Ok so they don't want us to pentameld the PVP gear with 5 Crit IV or SS whatever materia and have that work in FL, fine, but is allowing the stun/sleep/bind/heavy resist materia to work in PVP gear in FL too much to ask, for those of us who have spend the time and effort working to get to where we can buy the i180 gear. Otherwise some of it is pointless compared to stuff we can get easily in Alexander normal. And there isn't a ton of uniqueness like with the i110 gear, I have the rank 47 caster hat which is suspiciously similar to the Alexander BRD/MCH hat, and similarly the healing one is very similar to the NIN Alexander hat. The caster arms are much like the BLM Esoteric ones as well. I ended up glamouring my Crimson Vest over my casting shirt to go with the the rank 47 PVP caster ones and doubt I'll change it back even once I unlock the caster robe, I'll probably skip it. I've unlocked the ability to use that gear after much work, but for a lot of it I don't yet have a reason I'd want to use it.

[Tila]

Why do they even have morale anymore? It is literally useless in every single game mode at this point.

Perhaps they intend on raising the ilvl with time for PvP?