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I was not saying it is a bad way of doing it, or that gear is not used, I simply responded to your statement that OP should come before the expansion to prepare with gear for the expansion when in actuality most likely the level cap will be raised then making gear obsolete.
The i100 gear will likely still be viable when the new expansion comes out, assuming we get one more iLevel increase before then, which would seem to match the pace of development. Just like right now, i90 gear is still viable for all but two battles in the entire game, even though the shiniest endgame armor is around iLevel 110. If you're the kind of player who is always fixated on having best-in-slot gear, then yeah, you'll find that gear is made "obsolete" rather quickly... but if all you want is gear that allows you to be effective in parties, then gear lasts quite a long time.
Gearing up a job or two before the expansion hits (which, as I said earlier, isn't hard to do in this game) would allow you to jump head-first into the latest and greatest expansion content without having to play catch up. Plus, as I said earlier, there's a ton of stuff now for new players to keep busy with.
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Considering the ABSOLUTELY ONLY REASON myth gear is relevant for this long is because they @#%^ed up with CT. i90 Myth was the top set out the game then coil was basically THE SAME SET OF GEAR with a switched stat or two, they then released the next tier, which was i80, instead of going up..which was backwards.
This wasn't a *****-up... this was how it was rightfully meant to be. Crystal Tower is meant to be easier, more accessible endgame content, and the first stage of CT was meant to provide a bridge in iLevels between darklight gear (i70) and myth gear (i90). This was to help players get over the hump of beating Titan HM. That first stage of CT dropped better gear than any of the leveling dungeons, except for Binding Coil, which was the hardest challenge in the game. Makes perfect sense to me.
Edited, Jun 23rd 2014 10:38am by Thayos