Endgame gearing in FFXIV

[Shurrikhan]

Because you can, you can kit out character entirely with previous generation gear or use crafted, you may be off 10 ilevels for a while, but that is it, it wont make you stop being able to use your character for pretty much any content in the game as it is.

Unless you are siphoning resources from your main, everything else is stuck at, at best, the peak of the previous tier.

To be only 10 ilvl off means you either cleared Savage week 1 and got lucky on alt gear rolls (which still only covers 1 of several alternate gear classes), or you held your main back by funneling resources to another job.

For those unlucky with drops, that could often mean being unable to take part in Week 3 farms, given how high the community likes to jack up ilvl requirements.

[TomsYoungerBro]

Gearing is not slow unless you want for multiple jobs at once, current system makes sure you pick your favorite job to kit out first so there is a chance for some skill in the game... if want to do it same pace all classes, make one alt for each one of the jobs.

Let me guess, you dont do savage?

[Maltothoris]

Not for ultimates or Criterion Savage. If you want to do other jobs, then you're SOL.\

Edit: Not to mention, people don't want the bare minimum for the most part they went leeway and buffers so they will set the ilvl higher than what the crafted gear is.

[SaberMaxwell]

Gearing is not slow unless you want for multiple jobs at once, current system makes sure you pick your favorite job to kit out first so there is a chance for some skill in the game... if want to do it same pace all classes, make one alt for each one of the jobs.

What does gearing have to do with skill?

[Oldschoolegamer38]

I've been savage raiding the current tier for the 2 1/2 months on my main and nothing but books and 1 upgrade material...It's been frustrating..and the pacing is very slow for me who gets nothing but books and one upgrade material roll on P6S..don't think anyone here understands how rough it is for folks who have bad RNG...from my experience, it has been very frustrating, to say the least.

[Knot_D]

We still need alot of tome acc upgrade and that thing only dropped on p6s... Why not p5s as well? Almost entire static need them

[Ivtrix]

We still need alot of tome acc upgrade and that thing only dropped on p6s... Why not p5s as well? Almost entire static need them

1st turn dropping right side upgrade wound be dope.

[Dreamsoap]

As someone who now mains 5 jobs across different roles and is picking up more... this hurts more than ever. I have no way to reasonably gear my alts despite this game meant for swapping, meaning I cannot be the flex I wanna be in other content with my friends.

[Baf0]

I think it would be nice to be able to have separate role lockouts for DPS/T/H, so you could at least have a chance at obtaining more loot while learning the tier on different roles. Incentivize people who want to play the game more if they want to.
It'll probably help with the healer shortage that we're having now too.

As it stands right now, having to wait 8 weeks for a chest or a weapon is absurd.

[Packetdancer]

I think it would be nice to be able to have separate role lockouts for DPS/T/H, so you could at least have a chance at obtaining more loot while learning the tier on different roles. Incentivize people who want to play the game more if they want to.

While I would love if it was faster to gear up alt jobs, having role-based lockouts would be tricky to do while still keeping the current coffer system. Because otherwise I could run the fight as healer, tank, and DPS, get coffers on all three lockouts, and then open all of those coffers on healer to gear up just that one job really quickly.

One simple change I'd love to see, though, is not deducting a chest if you have one person who has already done the fight for the week. One repeat person is not going to wildly unbalance the runs and allow massive gear-grind farming, but would make finding a sub for a static if you're missing someone one night a lot easier to do without making everyone's gear climb even slower.