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

[Fynlar]

It's presumably because they wanted this to be content accessible to all level 80s, not just those caught up on "current" endgame levels.

The fact remains that item level sync on “new” content is dumb. People claim it’s to allow new players to join in when a new player wouldn’t clear this fight in a month of Sunday’s. Stop syncing content, make it aimed at the current item level tier

That really isn't the case. This fight isn't as difficult as you make it out to be (because Shiva EX was originally never that difficult either as far as extremes go, particularly not for being right after Ramuh) and it is very conceivable for someone to not be caught up to "current" endgame levels but still have done the original Shiva EX often enough to be very familiar with the fight's mechanics. Aside from all the numbers being scaled up, with greater emphasis placed on Shiva's HP because it's taking into account our greater proportional damage output with all our newer toys compared to what we had at 50... the fight is still ultimately a carbon copy of Shiva EX. Anyone that had lasting experience with Shiva EX will do just fine here.

It doesn't really matter what the item level cap is as far as fight difficulty goes; people familiar with Shiva EX are going to have a far easier time, and the people that aren't will have some learning to do. The same would apply even if the item level of the fight was more current.

[GeraldineKerla]

It's presumably because they wanted this to be content accessible to all level 80s, not just because caught up on "current" endgame levels.

Scaling it to how the min ilvl system works would make it *more* accessible as level 60s could participate, albeit missing skills?
Though if you can enter the fight then you have all the skills required to beat it regardless.

I agree with your comment on the item level sync, it honestly doesn't matter that its stuck at i435. Its not meant to be a serious progression fight to gain ilvls from beating.