I have been leveling all of my my secondary characters jobs to 80 recently and when I was leveling DNC I noticed while doing 70+ content, something about by dmg wasn't right. I was doing great in 60 or below.

I go to queue up for Qitana Ravel... and I get the message that my item level is not high enough... and I'm so confused.

I go through all my gear from right side to left side, everything is Augmented Scaeven gear... Cept my weapon which is still the level 60 Augmented Shire.

OOOPS That makes sense. That's why my damage is garbage.

A few months later I'm working on MCH.

Same thing happens again. I notice my damage is crummy in level 70+ content, but I had just been doing really good in the level 60 content.

Go to queue up for Qitana Ravel...

...Item level is not high enough.

Again I am confused. I thought all my gear was good.

All of it was Augmented Scaevan... Except the MOST IMPORTANT PIECE...

I'm sitting there with a level 60 Shire weapon at leave 75 again.