Mendacity AND Genesis removed?

[Angelov-Mercy]

I don't see this discussed elsewhere: the most recent "upcoming changes" notice says that 5.0 will see the removal of both Mendacity and Genesis tomestones -- but the two new types of tomestones will only be available at level 80.

Doesn't that leave a huge gap in using duty currencies to upgrade gear from 70-79th level? Or are they going to be putting iLevel 390 items on a gil merchant?

I still have a couple jobs I want to level up and gear to 360/390. Just a casual player here (don't do much raiding other than occasional pugs).

So not only are we being nerfed due to a level cap increase, our current progress of currency is being taken too?

I wonder why MMO's do this? Its like the new 5G coming out, they want me to buy a new phone because my current one wont work anymore by the end of the year...the sales clerk didnt mention this to me when he sold it to me a couple months ago! It would have been more convenient for the customer if they just worked around the hardware for the upgrade so my old phone wouldnt be junked after the cost to buy it to begin with was so high...the same could be said for our end game gear. Allow it to level with us so the effort wasnt in vein. But thats just me thinking of my own convenience.

[Kurando]

So not only are we being nerfed due to a level cap increase, our current progress of currency is being taken too?

Well your progress (of Mendacity and Genesis) can be traded for Poetics so it's not like you are losing everything, unless you literally do nothing with it and eventually an update would delete them anyway.

Doesn't that leave a huge gap in using duty currencies to upgrade gear from 70-79th level? Or are they going to be putting iLevel 390 items on a gil merchant?

Just like in Stormblood, the MSQ will offer gear as rewards to help you whilst leveling up. There will also be merchants in the new areas selling gear relevent to the local level so until you get to lvl 80 everything will be pretty much easy to access, after that though the new tomestone cap will come in to play, and you'd have job Artifact Gear too most likely.