I'm relatively new to the game and this is the first time I've cleared a tier to be able to look at the gearing issues. It just doesn't make any sense to me that SE designed the gearing process to have lower ilevel items be better than higher ilevel items. For example. one of the bis ring is a pentamelded 380 ring. It's literally way better than the omega ring that drops from a raid boss. The 385 weapon from Suzaku is better than the 390 weapon and on par dps wise with the 400 weapon. The 395 Seiryu weapon is better than the 400 weapon. The 390 24-man chest is better than the 400 chest. I don't understand the reasoning behind those designs. To get a 400 weapon, you have to kill Omega which is 20 times harder than Seiryu. Why would they choose the sub stats that make the 400 weapon worse than something as simple as Seiryu? Before twines were handed out to the masses, you have to kill Omega to upgrade your chest to 400. And the 24 man zerg raid will get you a better chest which is 10 ilevels lower? Is this some kind of oversight or is there a reason for SE to design lower ilevel items/weapons to be better than higher ilevel items/weapons? I played another game before FFXIV so it's really confusing to me.