Savage loot restriction should be gone by now and tomestone cap should be doubled.

[BabyYoda]

But how you will pay for subscription for 10 other months?
You must pay something to get full gear

[GartredZW]

The limited loot is a pretty important part of the game's endgame progression. Gutting it completely when the content isn't even outdated just feels kind of backwards to me.
The odd numbered patches already do enough to help people catch up in ilvl with stuff like hunt currencies and weekly alliance raid tokens going toward tomestone upgrades, and Alliance raid loot in general being above normal raid and crafted gear.
Maybe I and everyone on the dev team is just weird, but it's actually pretty fun to raid weekly for a chance at loot.
What isn't fun is when the Party Finder is entirely empty except for prog and parse parties. When you unlock the raids, you'll have a surge for a short while, then it will die down quickly when everyone got all the gear they wanted.
I'm already finished with my second gear set, and I've had some pretty bad luck overall, and made very liberal use of those books.

Remember, unless you're in the tiny minority that do Ultimates day 1, BiS isn't a requirement. It's an achievement. You can raid just fine with 710 gear. If you're planning to do FRU, well you've had quite a while to get yourself geared. And if for some reason you're only just now getting around to doing endgame, and still want to do Ultimate, the content is going to be very well populated for a long long time. I don't doubt you'll find groups to join.

[Dels]

Yeah right. Mathematically you could not have obtained enough tomes to get 4 jobs to BiS unless you're talking about classes that share gear, which doesn't cover the concern folks who flex have (think healer, melee, ranged, magic, tank flexing, not "I flex between tank and other tank"). Additionally, weapons come into play here for BiS, so either you have had very good luck on your weekly coffer rolls (does your static do FFA loot? Are you in PF?) or you have only earned enough M4S books to book a single one of your 4 BiS weapons, the other 3 coming from coffers locked behind luck based rolls. In addition to this you need not only a mixture of raid gear (luck based rolls) but additionally need the upgrade materials that either cost books (you get 1 per fight per week, so 3 weeks for a single accessory upgrade, 4 for a body piece) or lucky rolls. Simply put, in order for you to get 4 complete BiS sets in 9 weeks (plus however many weeks you were clearing the other fights, which if it took 7 weeks to clear M4S couldn't have been that long), someone else statistically has had to have received a proportionally lower amount of loot, which is what the central point of the argument was in the first place.

You're making arguments in bad faith.

yeah lol. i can speak pretty definitively on this as i have been clearing every week since week 1 and keeping up with my tomestones (i'm the type of person this thread exists for - i enjoy playing all 5 roles) and i have 1 role at full bis, 1 role at near bis just waiting on hunt trains to upgrade 2 tome pieces, and then a 3rd that has raid gear bis, needs 1 more tome accesory next week, and then the tome upgrade mats as well. the others all range from having a couple pieces to being maybe halfway done, that's counting sharing accesories on some roles, they're at around ilvl719 if i got a lucky weapon drop for them, 715 otherwise. that's with a static so getting exactly 1 of every piece of loot each 8 weeks, so 2 of each total.

i'll need about 5 more raid pieces from week 17 and on, and about 20 more tome pieces (lol). suffice to say, i sincerely hope the game makes it easier to gear alts in the future.

[GhostZukin]

I think it's fine to get rid of the lockout upon the release of a major patch if there is an ultimate attached (see: this one), because so many statics form and disband in that time, it helps to have options for extra jobs. In the case of my friends' group, other people will need to switch on a little bit of a whim, too.