FFXIV also kinda avoids this as well, if you grind for endgame gear it tends to carry you to a little over the halfway point or to the end of the next expansion before the patch cycles start. Like gear from 7.55 (last patch of old expansion) should carry you through most of 8.0 (new expansion launch).
This not true, FFXIV is a vertical gear tread mil.
The only reason you can do the story with low ilvl is because the story is not end game content which is what gearing is for. The story might as well not have an associated ilvl and it wouldn’t impact the story experience at all. It only exists to make normal mode players feel like there’s some level of progression.
FFXIV also kinda avoids this as well, if you grind for endgame gear it tends to carry you to a little over the halfway point or to the end of the next expansion before the patch cycles start. Like gear from 7.55 (last patch of old expansion) should carry you through most of 8.0 (new expansion launch).
This not true, FFXIV is a vertical gear tread mil.
The only reason you can do the story with low ilvl is because the story is not end game content which is what gearing is for. The story might as well not have an associated ilvl and it wouldn’t impact the story experience at all. It only exists to make normal mode players feel like there’s some level of progression.