Time to stop making synced content

[Rilifane]

I think what folks are complaining about when they talk about needing to get new gear is that when you level sync equipment, the value of ALL materia slotted in that gear is reduced to zero. So, for a ilvl 435 capped fight, sure you can wear your ilvl 500 savage gear, but ilvl 430 gear will be BETTER, because you can actually make use of the stats from the materia you slot into it.

I don't know if this fight is going to be tuned hard enough that overmelded 430 crafted gear will be necessary to clear it, but it's always irritating to have to carry around a full second set of gear to be optimal for a given fight.

It's still a mystery to me why the devs didn't build the level sync system to sync materia along with the other stats on the gear. It would have saved folks an awful lot of trouble. As it is, folks progging Ultimate fights typically have to farm up a full set of the appropriate Savage gear first, which is a major annoyance (both the farming, and also having to manage the extra set of gear with limited inventory).

I get that the Materia thing is somewhat annoying, I never disagreed with that.
But some make it seem like having better gear is completely useless. It's not. Above a certain ilvl, you simply don't get better and that's not a bad thing at all because content already gets steamrolled way too much to make a decent transition between casual and endgame content.

To me, this sounded more like "I want to steamroll more casual/ semi-casual content" instead of "I'm a dedicated ultimate raider that needs to care about optimal gear and doesn't like to farm a seperate gear set for every ultimate content" - because ultimate was never the issue to begin with here. It was mostly about an unreal trial that has a fairly low ilvl req and ilvl sync - most likely to make it accesible right from the start.
And I very much doubt that optimal performance is what people will need or be after for a trial they do once per week for a neat little minigame.
I get the issue with ultimate isync and I'm not looking forward to farming gear for UWU/ UCoB but not everything that gets synced is ultimate. Changing isync to appropriately calculate materia would be great but not syncing content is general? No. Absolutely not.