Conflicting tasks ruining the game?

[Morningstar1337]

The reason for these lockouts (including the weekly cap) might be the reason why most sources of Lore are subpar compared to DREX. When one raids, they must educate themselves to one Job as to be more efficient in that job until they rreach the peak (represented blatantly by the iLevel cap, in this case, i240). This means that the gear and its iLevel are a testament to the Jobs dedication, and as such becomes a cycle. Good Gear is both a symbol and the cause of dedication to a Job. and as a result the Best gear should both be hard to get, and be rendered moot by the time you get it. Like say the Masamune or Ultima Weapons in other games, but to a lesser extent. If you already have the i240 gear, then there's little reason to go raid as that class bar skill (Since if you can get the i240 armor, chances are that you can ask for the gear in advance and not be the required class to gain it) and patch cycling, especially if you only have one job at 60 (reminder that can =/= have to applies to leveling and gearing alt jobs, they are optional content in this case).

With that said, I begin to wonder if SE could make a change to how they release Gear. As we know, there are currently two tiers of tomestone gear. A tier with a hard cap of 2000, and with with an additional soft cap of 450 a week. It might be possible that SE can make it so that the former set of Gear be cycled out early (like say, in catch up patches) and the latter sets be downgraded to be the former in the same time, but with no new gear/tomestone set released until the patch after (where the iLevel will be raised anyway).

The end result would be that during raid patches there will be two sets of gear to trae the tomestones for, for catch-ups the gear gets cycled out early with only one gear and that being the uncapped gear with all the benefits thereof (more per run, no weekly cap, newbie bonuses, etc). Then the next raid patch will cycle in the new gear as with a new tomestone under the soft cap. It will address part of the issues of gearing alts, but might have its own problems. There is a sort of precient with 3.0 (and I do mean 3.0, not 3.05) if what I presume (That Yahsa was the only available Tomestone gear at 60) is correct