Quote Originally Posted by linay View Post
If you've been playing the game and are caught up with gearing, you should not be on Weathered gear by the time Copied Factory was released, at least not on your main. But the fact there are people who are late at gearing (or are playing alt job) might increase your chance at getting higher parse at the beginning, assuming you are caught up with the game.

But yes, everything is harder at min ilvl.
Well that's what I did,
I started in Weathered while earning the tokens for Ronken, while simultaneously grabbing pieces of Yhorah and earning the tokens for Deepshadow just like you would have if you'd have started off.

Its a whole new experience playing it at the iLvls it was intended at.

Or how about this since I saw a lot of it... go put on your old Deepshadow and see how well you do at the new raids. You're not going to be getting orange parces in it unless you are really really good... or the first person to lay down a parce.

That's the way its going to be for a new player, because they aren't going to have tens of millions of gil to be dropping on HQ Ishgardian gear.

They are going to have to gear up slowly, which means a ton of Copied Factory runs to even GET Augmented Deepshadow. Let alone the Eden Titan runs to get the Deepshadow Weapon. They might be able to scratch up enough for a HQ Ishgardian weapon but that will be about it.