It's that time again folks! (Tomestone thread)

[HaelseMikiro]

The number of tomestomes isn't the issue but more the fact that SE just continues to roll out the same content style patch after patch.

They are introducing 250 level craft able fully mendable gear from what I understand. How is that the same stuff? One doesn't have to do tomes if they don't want to. I know personally i have fully meldable 220 gear currently and didn't fully gear my roles in Lore, I used it more for alt roles than my main. Seems people what things to change and they have made changes, I just think people don't want to see it.

It's the exact same thing they did with 3.2. We had i220 fully meldable crafted gear, and 220 Midan gear. Only new thing is crafted weapons this time around. And it'll be hit and miss if crafted or 250 Sophia weapons will be BiS for any given job until after 7 weeks of Alex NM when most people start getting Scripture Weapons (non-raiders + non-dps raiders).
If anything you could say we're getting a similar but worse deal this time around because crafted ilvls are expected to be 10 ilvls lower than Alex NM. This is probably solely to slow down raid progression, because with the tuned down difficulty this tier, Alex Savage would probably be even less a challenge with full raid teams in full 260 crafteds, completely negating the need to grind Alex NM.
Also if we get fully meldable raid/tome gear.....that again is the community getting a sort of 'shaft'. The added customization will help people who are pushing content that requires specific accuracy/speed values, but anyone not in that niche will actually be under a greater burden than previous tiers as the gear will be STRIPPED of secondary stats in order to balance the materia potential. Also add in losing all that materia when Scripture gear is upgraded, and people are now required to pentameld each piece of gear twice, or just settle for under optimized equipment.
I foresee much settling, and significantly less gearing of alt jobs between now and 4.0