Why is recommended gear in ARR content like this? D:

thank god i have glams now for leveling different classes

i can't be seen out here lookin like that

I don’t miss ARR dungeons, I’ve got like three more Jobs to get out of that hell

maybe the ARR rework will come with a de-borking of the autoequip?

It seems to go by item level over all other possible qualifiers. Which. No.

That and isn't most low level gear equip-able by all classes/jobs? :|a So the system just goes 'this has more numbers' and slaps it on no matter what.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's... looking at the raw attack/defense score on the gear and weighting that either equal to or more heavily than the actual attributes

It doesn't look at the defense scores, or tanks wouldn't have such wonky equip problems. I'm pretty sure it's going by item level, to end up doing that.

The caster gear and the DoH/DoL gear are "all classes', generally, which mucks things up for the physical DPS and the Tanks.

auto equip is looking at ilvl, yeah, it doesn't evaluate the specific stats. It has no way to know what's "best" for you without an intense algorithm at work there

so they'd have to either rework all the gear from that section or rework the algorithm, and i doubt either one of those are anywhere on the devs priorities

I hope they do it someday

I've had so many interactions where I notice the tank is really squishy, I check their gear, see they're wearing caster stuff, try to explain to them about auto-equip and armor and whatever...

From my understanding, iLevel is the largest factor yeah. I believe main stat (str/dex/vit/int/mind) is a factor but isn't weighed as heavily

And it's a 50/50 shot whether they will go "oh okay" and do something about it or get defensive.

i had the brand new ring well into my 40s because the auto thought all those stats were better than the higher ilvl rings

my friend had to tell me to swap it out manually

Come to think of it, the sub-50 stuff could be the way it is because of 1.0 spaghetti code

^that's what I was thinking when I first saw this plurk