Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
Hmm, I wonder if it's possible to assign job stones a scaling ilevel like the aetheryte earring? It would keep pace with your current level, but not having one would severely impact your average gear level.
That would not be enough. A character decked out in ShB endgame gear (i470) but with one of 13 equipment slots empty would still have an average ilevel of 434. Even basic Lv80 gear would result in i397, allowing that person to queue for any StB content. The soulstone slot would need to have a ridiculously high weight compared to other slots to lock players without a stone into content where not having a stone is appropriate.

In fact, I'm not sure if having the soulstone equipped is enough either. Someone intending to troll could get the stone but then not do any further job quests, depriving themselves of several key abilities. I wonder how that would work actually? Would a Lv64 WHM without the Lv54 job quest have both Stone II and Stone IV, since the latter is obtained without a quest but Stone III in between and the trait which upgrades II to III are from a quest?