Shiva Unreal, why not just change the way min ilvl works?

[MPK]

Upon casually looking around for actual i435 gear and not finding any of it, I've come to the conclusion that they probably placed the item level range of this fight (i430-435) specifically where it is to act as a sort of equalizer.

Yes, you can potentially join this fight as a fresh 80 with all i430 stuff; it may not be as high level as the more experienced players who will have stuff all over i435, but this means you will get materia boosts to help bring you to the level of the i435s.

Pretty sure they only ilevel sync it so it doesn't become a rofl stomp like doing Immaculate EX in full i500

[kuma_aus]

This is the key point, with your static. I would expect an organized group to have very little issue with an extreme trial, I can't say the same about pugs. This is normally where gear makes up for the lack of coordination or players that are just playing below average, with the ilvl sync you do not have that kind of leeway.

The fight literally has 1 tiny bit of organisation needed. People need to decide 2 people to each clock position. That's it.

If organisation like that is too much for the PUGs you have to handle, the problem isn't with the content lol.

[Fynlar]

Pretty sure they only ilevel sync it so it doesn't become a rofl stomp like doing Immaculate EX in full i500

Well the fight is literally just Shiva EX but rebalanced for the level range that it is. They could easily have adjusted Shiva's HP/damage even higher and made it a i480-485 (or whatever) fight instead and it would have made no difference, other than excluding fresh level 80 players.