How would you set item level requirements for Leveling Dungeons?

[Dzian]

Tank 270 vs NQ 279:

NQ has ~25% more of each defense
Shire 270 has ~10 more str and ~50 more vit.

The NQ stuff is significantly better on a tank, its not even close.

If ya gonna compare sets at least do the complete ones.

279 doman sword 58 damage.
270 shire. 64 damage

279 Roman shield. 400 block rate 400 block street.
270 shire shield. 416 block rate 416 block strength.

Running Albania in 270 is no different to running an expert at 350 when everyone else is 390+

And when people run roulette to level theres really no point updating gear. 270 is gonna smash most stuff. even at level 69
alliance roulette. Shire is great
50 60 roulette shire is great.
Raid roulette shire is great.
Netflix roulette shire is great (msq)

Levelling roulette. Out of 25 duties in the levelling roulette theres 2 where you could maybe have better gear than shire. So at very best theres an 8% chance of getting one of those duties in your queue. Except in reality its significantly lower than that because odds are at least one person your matched with is going to be under 65. Which essentially means your roulette will be one of 23 duties all of which Aug. shire is good for. And its get exponentially lower the lower you go down in levels. So theres maybe only a 1% chance of getting one of those 2 duties... and if you do then your gear might not be the best its it's good enough...

Trials roulette. Again 25 possible duties for a level 69 player and thus at best a 4% chance of landing one where it would be possible to have better gear.. again significantly lower because odds are at least one person your matched with will be under 65...

It's really not worth upgrading gear until you hit 70. Because odds are unless you're specifically going to queue a specific dungeon you're just never going to make use of it...

It's not to dissimilar from what some people say when people mention horizontal progression people don't want a set of gear that's only good in one piece of content and essentially that's exactly what levelling gear is. That level 68 gear set for example is basically only good for 1 dungeon that you might run 1 time before you hit 70..

The design of the game just makes it worthless..this isn't a new problem either because it's the same at every level. One of the big reasons any people don't raid is because the gear you get from raiding is basically worthless... it's all just throw away junk.

its been said hundreds of times since 2.0 and maybe even earlier than that. If you want players to step up andmake an effort to attain gear good gear and up there game. you have to make gear that players actually feel is valuable or worth something..

you only need to look at glamour as an example and you can see this. how many times do you see players go out gather, farm, grind or whatever to go and get a 15 million gil poncho or whatever and yet you wont see a single piece of materia or anything melded into any of there gear... because it holds no worth.... there's a reason why they say glamour is the only endgame..

and it's also why more and more people are getting off the treadmill because there sick and tired of it..