Gearscore is coming!

[SKYeXile]

Hell no. It's easy to get for people who like to do nothing but run dungeons. For those of us that wan't to run them once for achievement and to see what it's like, these kind of things are murder, especially since there is no way to craft half decent gear anymore without needing tomestones. I don't want crafted gear to be BiS, just good enough that I can at least attempt the high level dungeons without running the ones just below 100 times first.

Its certainly easy, but its also a boring monotonous grindfest to have full tier 1.

[Airget]

They could always make it a toggle option in Duty Finder much like the whole "join party already in progress" toggle on the upper potion before searching for an instance to enter.

[Oldschool]

Get this crap out of my MMO's, damn you WoW for ruining this genre in so many ways. What ever happened to getting with a group of cool people and having fun doing content and having to find a way to overcomes their weaknesses to accomplish the goal....and sometimes (OMG!!) failing.

[ElHeggunte]

What ever happened to getting with a group of cool people and having fun doing content and having to find a way to overcomes their weaknesses to accomplish the goal....and sometimes (OMG!!) failing.

For me it's not fun trying to do the impossible. It's one thing to get together an appropriately geared group and trying to work your way through difficult content via trial-and-error, it's something else entirely to have no chance of success at all because one or more of your members isn't even close to being geared enough for the content. Skill only goes so far. Without appropriate gear your tanks can't take hits, your healers can't keep up with incoming damage, and your dps will never kill things fast enough.

A gear check is necessary when you're being asked to work with strangers. It's a form of insurance by making sure that everyone is at least geared enough for the content and giving you one less thing to worry about.

[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.

[Syfin]

FINALLY repair costs are acknowledged!

[Blargen]

I've only had 1 bad experience from a Pug in regards to gear. I was healing lvl 50 dungeon and accidentally left my lvl 18 neck when I switched jobs. I entered the instance and within seconds the DPS says "great. healer is a fucking casual." after I replied with "??" he proceeded to belittle me because I have a low neck piece and didn't have full Darklight gear. He then left the group. I promptly switched neck, told the Tank and DPS, we requeued and got another DPS without such high standards.

Unfortunately I think gearscore could encourage this type of behavior in a small group of people. Fortunately we got a big ignore function and there is more than enough population in Duty Finder to replace them.

[SKYeXile]

I've only had 1 bad experience from a Pug in regards to gear. I was healing lvl 50 dungeon and accidentally left my lvl 18 neck when I switched jobs. I entered the instance and within seconds the DPS says "great. healer is a fucking casual." after I replied with "??" he proceeded to belittle me because I have a low neck piece and didn't have full Darklight gear. He then left the group. I promptly switched neck, told the Tank and DPS, we requeued and got another DPS without such high standards.

Unfortunately I think gearscore could encourage this type of behavior in a small group of people. Fortunately we got a big ignore function and there is more than enough population in Duty Finder to replace them.

Iv had afew experiences where the other DPS wernt at adique levels, like pulling 70DPS and such, like tank level DPS, making some fights more hassle than they need to be.


The only real problem iv had is one tank on ifrit wearing paper armour that had been drenched in gasoline, he would take 50% health damage each swing, out full darklight healer couldn't keep him up :/ ofcourse when he died he proceeded to be abusive.

[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.

[Kesac]

My guess for the requirements?

Ifrit HM: Average IL 50
Garuda HM: Average IL 55
Titan HM: Average IL 60

That way you can have one or two undergeared slots IF your other gear is overgeared. Also they mentioned average IL will be on your char sheet.