Gearscore is coming!

[Itchyness]

Eh. THIs isn't really gearscore. THis is iLvl, look at Tera. Has it built in, does perfectly fine and no one is really crazy about demanding you to be overgeared.

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Of course, all the lazy QQ's are going to keep on ranting up a storm about this, just cuz they don't feel like getting decently geared, as many people have stated. Pretty sure not EVERYONE in the game wishes to run content, especially endgame grinds for tomes, with people wearing no gear at all with their lvl 1 starter weapon.

[Medura]

finally being a goldsmith will be worth it! seeing as it costs 360k atm to just craft rosegold earrings :P

[Darte]

What people aren't getting is that there isn't a specific score you'll be judged against, it will be your average score.

Example: If you wear all level 60 gear, regardless of how "good" an item is for any given specific slot for that level range, you'll be judged as having equipment item level of 60. An average across your entire gears iLevel. You aren't being assigned a score of 3014712389471, your gear simply averages out to be level 60. You can see this by creating a gear set and looking at the level of the set.

If your gears average iLevel is less than the minimum requirement for a dungeon, you can't go because your contribution will be too low. Don't believe me? I can guarantee you won't be hearing any tales of victory against hard mode titan with anyone less than Amdapor Keep level armor (iLvL60) and an Ifrit level weapon. Though I think the average party will need dark light to beat, I'm talking about bare minimums here.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

Something tells me this is going to push away a lot of players ( unless the gear score is reasonable) If you need like all Darklight gear to do end game content then this will sure back fire. I feel people shouldn't be restricted of content because there gear isn't up to snuff.

*This doesn't effect me in anyway shape or form, I just feel people will leave if they get restricted because of their gear.* Take it as you will.

sadly this is a necessary feature in a game with bosses where dps matter for a wipe or success, like demon wall. Right now everyone can enter everywhere, but it's not feasible. The worst amdapor i did was with a blm+brd in af and quest weapon, at first boss we had priest alive+boss+2 golem add alive...at once. This is just wrong.

[Delmontyb]

I could see this as being a great system if it's optional. Meaning, that if you form a party you can enter into the instance, however, if you just queue up for a dungeon then it will be something that is checked.

IMO.

[KogaDrake]

The worst amdapor i did was with a blm+brd in af and quest weapon, at first boss we had priest alive+boss+2 golem add alive...at once.

sounds like you got bad players more than anything. As a fresh 50 in AF, lv49 white wep, and mixture of 30-49 ilv for my jewlery as a BRD i had absolutely no issues in AK with the other DPS being similarly geared. With groups with ifrit's weps and some darklight and rest ilv55/60 Wall can die before bees. This just shows gear score will help, but unless each dungeon is tiered by needing to complete the one before it to obtain some gear and show progression of skill level to move on, skill levels (not ilevel) will still be a huge handycap.

other important thing that needs to be watched for here will be those who have a bunch of darklight from job one just equiping it on their 2nd job (wrong jewlery and does nothing for current job) to be able to queue, which will gimp them worse than if they just had the correct ear that was too low.

[Komisho]

This is definitely one of those things where it could either turn out great or horrible. Mainly because of the players, I'd definitely not looking forward to seeing people demanding an obnoxious GS just to get into that raid that you have to do in order to even get that kind of GS.

[Supersomething]

Gearscore is already in the game if you actually look at the gear you equip, because it does show item level on it. All they are doing now is gating dungeons to prevent players who should not be in certain dungeons from entering it yet, which I am perfectly fine with.

People like to complain that this is going to cause division within the game amongst players, but I will guarantee you that even if this system was not being implemented players would find another way to segregate. We humans have an insatiable need to quantify anything and place value on almost everything, so it was bound to happen one way or another.

[Babydoll]

Eh I dont mind it...df is scary and I mostly do stuff with my fc anyway lol

[Loving]

I don't feel like we need gear score as much as we need an ability to kick baddies from the parties. It might break a lot of hearts but maybe people would at least learn from it and maybe get the gear necessary for the encounters.