Gearscore is coming!

[Vesper]

Gearscore tends to be a blight upon most games that implement it. HOWEVER if done right like suggested above, needing lvl 45 gear for a 50 Ifrit hard that would be fine, if only to get people to upgrade passed their level 30 crap. But if its extremely rigid and the content begins to get mostly about having top end gear vs tactics/strategy and teamwork hell the eff no.

[Slambo]

1 and 3 sound like a step in the right direction. 2 sounds like a step in the wrong direction. We'll see how this pans out.

[Syrellaris]

This is going to be a fiasco like it is in so many games. People will no longer loom at the skill of the player but gear score instead. You'll be like 2-5 points short and people will be like you suck, while they could actually be able to do it good enough

[Zumi]

Its a good idea and step in the right direction. Too many AF geared players in Titan HM making it impossible to win.

[Riv]

i'm sure it create progression as well as the main scenario does.

[truemagus]

LFM..VoA,min gearscore xxxx(several hundred scores higher than the gear in the raid) link achieve(gotta of done the place and have better gear,in order to do the place and get gear...lol)!!!!!!!

that will be FF soon

[Alhanelem]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1232837




I'm personally excited at the prospect...just hopefully it doesn't count cloth gear for tanks etc and other ways of exploiting the system.

not quite the same thing as gearscore because gearscore is based on the stats, while this is based just on item level.

Hopefully they'll set the restriction pretty low so it only prevents trolling by entering naked or with minimal gear on purpose.

[TasOgie]

oh christ wowscore, just what we need, more teenagers on a power kick screaming an ranting at others over silly pixel shinys...

[silentwindfr]

sadly with the speedrun of amdapor + farming of fate for level up, Gearscore =/= skill , you can be full darklight if you don't know how to play...

you get the point.

ps: and with this, we will see some party be based on the gearscore (like in wow and some game), even if the gearscore asked is way too high for what they gonna do.
like some people that will not bring you at ifrit HM because you don't have the the full darklight or at least full amdapor. when is fairly doable with only the AF and GC weapon level 50

[Dawn]

the Idea of GS is good.
but it cannot be compulsory as people may group up with their own team