Quote Originally Posted by Ultimatecalibur View Post
LotA and ST are not actually ilevel synced. All 3 ARR Alliance Raids sync to the expansion's ilevel cap of i130/i135 and demonstrate what content would be like without ilevel sync.
I mean, yes, but syncing someone in i500 gear down to i130 is still syncing things down, even if it's not exactly the same calculation as used elsewhere. Going in with them still having the benefit of full i500 gear would almost certainly be even more dramatic.

Anyway, I almost think what would make more sense is if you looked at someone's gear within the appropriate expansion for the level their job is at, and adapted it down from there. You're level 70+ and in Augmented Scaevan? You get the full i90 in LotA... until you hit 80. But you're level 80 and in, say, Augmented Deepshadow gear? Well, now when you get into LotA, you're at i70 or something.

There's drawbacks to this method, too, especially given the fact that each time you hit an expansion cap you'd suddenly be weaker in these lower-level duties until you geared up appropriately. But it is one that would give you a rewarding feel of power in even lower-level instances for having gear at the appropriate capstone. (And you'd even get a feel for it when you weren't yet at endgame; having that Augmented Scaevan gear from level 70 on would let roulettes give you a taste of what life could be like if you did get that capstone gear when you hit 80.)

But the drawbacks to that idea may outweigh any real gains.