Tomestone weekly cap?

[DPZ2]

I've always thought of it as more of an 'equalizer' rather than a gate. Different players have different schedules. Weekly progression for some becomes impossible for others if the tomestones are uncapped, as the possibility of finding other players for content decreases once all the gear desired has been purchased.

[Doc_Seraph]

Kupo <3 when we run roulettes and get templated down in ilvl...does having better gear have any noticeable effect? Do the blue stats carry down somewhat or am I missing something? because if not the only reason to get top gear is to run savage otherwise kupo *shrugs*

Somebody said to me that secondary stats have a trickle down but I have never confirmed this..suppose its easy enough to test though kupo <3

[Jeeqbit]

Kupo <3 when we run roulettes and get templated down in ilvl...does having better gear have any noticeable effect?

The only effect your gear choice has above the item level sync is which substats your gear has, not the amount of them. Piety or tenacity over Critical Hit is not usually optimal. Materia does not count.

if not the only reason to get top gear is to run savage otherwise kupo *shrugs*

Ultimate, extreme trials, expert roulette, level 90 normal raids, level 90 normal trials, hunts, maps, quests and level 89-90 fates. You don't need the better gear for these, but killing them faster is nice and it's a flex.

There is a stat-cap in every dungeon or raid.

I wouldn't describe it like this and this is not strictly true for the latest dungeons at level 90.

There is a Level Sync which is applied to any content below your level. Level Sync includes an item level sync to the maximum item level of the expansion it's from. The maximum item levels for 50, 60, 70 and 80 are 130, 270, 400 and 530 respectively. Leveling dungeons sync your item level to something slightly above those, such as 403, 406, 409, 412, 415 or 418 for 64-69 respectively.

There is an Item Level Sync which is applied to certain dungeons and story mode trials. If you are the same level as the content and level sync doesn't apply to you, you will still get synced to this item level.

We will experience Item Level Sync in level 90 dungeons to prevent them from becoming too easy later in the expansion, but it's not used for level 90 content with 8 or 24 people.

[Vencio]

I don’t mind it,

Yes it may delay greatly the gearing process yet over time I can reach be at the savage’s ilevel wise without even bothering to engage with hardcore content + commit to 4-7 hours of static gameplay for Savage which I will never bring myself to such grind + it helps me to focus greater with irl sorts.

I am content with how it is & not rushed to gear up.

After all, isn’t glamour & housing the true endgame content?

[Vencio]

Kupo <3 when we run roulettes and get templated down in ilvl...does having better gear have any noticeable effect? Do the blue stats carry down somewhat or am I missing something? because if not the only reason to get top gear is to run savage otherwise kupo *shrugs*

Somebody said to me that secondary stats have a trickle down but I have never confirmed this..suppose its easy enough to test though kupo <3

Honestly I don’t think ilevel matters much if its 10 or 15 levels down & I believe it does get scaled or something.

I believe absolute-ilevel importances are solely for the hardcore minded folks that excessively seeks to excel at savages or beyond but for casual it matters little or very at all.

[Doc_Seraph]

Honestly I don’t think ilevel matters much if its 10 or 15 levels down & I believe it does get scaled or something.

I believe absolute-ilevel importances are solely for the hardcore minded folks that excessively seeks to excel at savages or beyond but for casual it matters little or very at all.

That is basically what I can see from running them kupo <3 I was just thinking an incentive would be to give some perk to having great gear...nothing op just a slight boost maybe a 5% boost to certain things *shrug*

[Valfreyja]

There is a stat-cap in every dungeon or raid.

Usually any gear that is above the dungeon/raid level will get scaled down to this cap.

I've got a perfect example of this. I was in one of the Crystal Tower raids. They are level 50s.
I was playing a Gunbreaker. Figure I was 70 or higher at the time.
So I was at the stat-cap for GNB while inside the raid.

I was jumped on by one of the other tanks for stealing aggro. His argument was that he was wearing "level appropriate" gear for the raid. Meaning something around 50.

I was barely doing any rotation, hardly paying attention. Never using Provoke or my ranged. And still stealing aggro pretty strongly.

[BluexBird]

Extremely annoyed they didn't raise it to 900. I can farm Savage for a chest piece, but I have to wait 2 weeks to get the tome one? WTF?!

[Gemina]

Time gate? I'm not so certain about that. I believe the cap actually incentivizes players to run content. If you miss the cap, you lose those tomes, and there's no way to get them back. What this does to casual players like me is gets me to momentarily abandon my current pursuits to hop into roulettes because losing out on the games current currency just doesn't sit well with me. I'd imagine a lot of other casuals feel the exact same way. If there was no cap, I would not run the same amount of PvE content.

Very similar thing happened when they removed the weekly cap on scrips. I stopped farming them. I quickly noticed how I didn't even need to be doing that. And I was just grinding those scrips for the sake of not losing out on a currency I'm not even using.

Same with current tomes. I use the augmented classical gear for max jobs. I don't run savage or ultimate so I don't need the BiS gear, and mindlessly grinding those tomes is not fun, or a good use of my time online. However, I do acknowledge that doing roulettes does help the community, so I still cap those tomes weekly. It's just a chore.

[Deveryn]

I agree with the idea of being incentivized to do more. The current tome (Aphorism) works as incentive to craft top level goods, which helps spiritbond your non-combat gear and gets you generating more of that materia.