You know, I never really hear anyone whining in FF14 that they aren’t getting 605 weapons from doing leveling roulettes. WoW players are weird. I’m pretty sure, and maybe someone could correct me, that you could be pushing well into Mythic+ at 252, possibly into 15s and getting Mythic gear from the vault.
For reference, the 605 weapons are from Dragonsong’s Reprise Ultimate, harder than anything you will see in WoW. Echo, the best WoW raid guild on the planet, still hasn’t even cleared the thing.
From ZM questing alone (if you spend enough time there), you can get enough gear to time +15s or kill possibly the entire raid on heroic (not 100% sure on some of the later bosses) with good play.
Perhaps it’s my former raider days talking, but even as a near totally solo player now myself, I think the best raid/mythic gear should be available only from raiding/mythics, just as the best PvP gear should be available only from PvP’ing.
I’d like to see more gear progression for open world players (now that I am one), but it shouldn’t ever be BiS, not unless it’s so time gated that raiders/mythic runners would be under no incentive at all to obtain it that way.
I don’t do antorus or tombs because there is nothing from there that I want.
But please keep in mind that open world players get 233 gear plus tier plus 291 leggos. This is WAY more than even Best in Slot mythic raiders had in patch 9.0.
So you, as an open-world only player, still has access to extremely powerful gear that world first mythic raiders didn’t have at the beginning of this expansion.
they didn’t when i raided at a reasonably high level. if anyone in the raid cared, i never heard about it. we didn’t sit around after raid and complain about how this one time we inspected a casual and he had BIS TF trinkets or whatever
