How is ilvl an issue while leveling?

[LineageRazor]

It's not even remotely uncommon to run into players running Doma Castle or Castrum Abania while still wearing some pieces of gear from Stormblood. This game awards exp MUCH faster than it awards gear, so unless you specifically grind for gear of appropriate level, or purchase it with gil, you WILL eventually begin to lag behind on ilvls. As noted, falling behind on ilvls can result in long, difficult runs of what should be faceroll-easy trash dungeons.

Since folks often want to rush to 70 as fast as possible, they rarely bother to grind dungeons for gear, and are often low on gil as well (and often have little patience for tracking down the NPCs that could sell NQ gear cheaply).

[MoroMurasaki]

Since folks often want to rush to 70 as fast as possible, they rarely bother to grind dungeons for gear, and are often low on gil as well (and often have little patience for tracking down the NPCs that could sell NQ gear cheaply).

I'm sorry if I misunderstand - if you aren't defending these points as legitimate reasons to not be up-to-date on your gear then excuse my post.

Not being willing to take advantage of the plethora of gearing options available to you is no excuse to have poor gear. Everyone has the same opportunities to gear up, some of which take literally the effort required to google a vendor and teleport to them.


Wearing Shire gear into Doma and Abania is really just lazy no matter how you spin it - you could have geared up in Bardam's, you could have purchased crafted gear from the MB, you could have purchased NQ whites from a vendor... there are so many options and if in the 'rush to 70' someone feels it's okay to burden their party by not doing any of these that is on them.

A lot of people justify not gearing up under this idea that the rest of the party will likely be geared just fine but imagine an entire party showing up to Abania in i255 - that's going to be a nightmare 99% of the time and needlessly longer than most runs. They all assumed someone else would pick up their slack.

[LineageRazor]

I'm sorry if I misunderstand - if you aren't defending these points as legitimate reasons to not be up-to-date on your gear then excuse my post.

Yes, you misunderstood; I'm not defending the practice, just making an observation.

I will note, though, that the moment you mentioned Googling something, you're already going WELL beyond the level of effort that many players are willing to put into this game. Players ARE lazy, and many refuse to do "homework" of any kind, at least when it comes to "faceroll easy content" (which, ironically, loses its faceroll status precisely because they fail to do that minimum amount of research).