Item Level - How high will it go?

[alimdia]

You guys have this weird notion that item level has to match character level, it doesn't, that's like saying they should reset STR or DET so it doesn't go into the far hundreds because we will be level 70, pears and apples.

You can call it "item power" or "item rank" instead of item level if you want, the point is that it's just a number that denotes item A is stronger than item B and nothing else. We could get into item level 5000 and it still wouldn't matter.

[worldofneil]

I don't think it'll double again, it'll just be another 130-135 on top (as that's how much it's gone up both times so far). So ~400 ish.

At this rate, it wouldn't be until end of 8.0/start of 9.0 (!) that we started getting into 4 digits and even if we did... does that matter? It's not related to our job level.

At 2 years per expansion, 9.0 would be around 2026, we have some time :P

[SilkaN]

Thread title is so tempting

I know I shouldn't

but I have to

[ShenDrakar]

Thread title is so tempting

I know I shouldn't

but I have to

Damn you got first...lmao!

[Roth_Trailfinder]

I do not expect item level to continue doubling. I would not be surprised, however, if it keeps going up, over the course of a 10 level expansion, by around 140 points or so.

And given that the item level display has 4 digits, I do not expect them to do anything regarding it (pruning it down or anything of that sort) until it is approaching the 10,000 mark. And at 140ish ilevels per expansion, I don't believe the game will have enough expansions to reach that mark.

[AlphaFox]

All I know is to expect tanks to start having or getting close to 70k+ HP. As for Ilv, I really don't know. Am expecting to see ilvs of 400-500 in this expansion but seeing as it was such a slow and overtime progress I won't mind as much. Better than some games where you start at level 1 and already doing 1000s of damage from your basic level 1 attacks.

[Reih]

Who knows, maybe at some point we'll have 55 trillion iLv gear and 60 trillion iLv weapons. What really needs to change is the vertical growth this game offers and focus more on horizontal stuff.

[Altanas]

I think the per patch ilvl increments are in stone so by 4.5 we will hit exactly ilvl415

[CaptainLagbeard]

If we assume two things, one that it will work like it did going from A Realm Reborn to HW, and that 270 (for armor, 275 for finished Anima Weapon) is the highest ilvl of HW...

130/135 was the highest for ARR, 115 was the lowest in HW, this would mean Stormblood gear starts at 245, rising 5 ilvls per level and reaching 270 at 64 (275 at 65 for Anima Weapon) and Maxing out at ilvl 300 from the first Level 70 dungeons.
First tomestone gears (ones bought with Allagan Tomestone of Law) were 10 ilvls higher than the gear from the first dungeons loot (Neverreap and Fractal Continuum) so Stormblood's would be ilvl 310.

If we assume 3 new sets of Tomestones, ones that worked like HW, their Ilvls would be 340(350 upgraded), 370(380 upgraded) and 400(410 upgraded).

[Canadane]

We have four digits of ilvl in our character info.
So maybe 9999? One day...