Repair changes and other stuff comingFollow

Will that be on all dungeons, or just the level 50 hardmode?

Makes sense... if your gear is not good enough, you'll die and bring the group down... so why not just filter out those who don't meet the requirement to at least survive the dungeon prior to them dragging down the rest of the group unnecessarily.

Other games have gear scores in place for their dungeon finders, why not put this restriction in place to avoid the issue.

I share your concern, but let's be very careful in how this is applied to the game. We don't want elitism to ruin the game either. I'm not saying this is the goal of this system, but you know how people are and will adapt it to this end. Upon my return to FFXI shortly before FFXIV was launched, I was very disappointed by the community belief that you were required to have a relic weapon to participate with the good groups. It was so annoying they wanted you to have a weapon/item you only get from the zone itself. So that's like putting the carriage in front of the horse here. I'll all for positive chances to the game, but this change must be positive for players of all types. There is a difference between being gimped and just average. I'm concerned there will be no such distinction once you can filter people out by gear. It might start at gear levels, but we all know what follows.

It would be cool if the ilvl req was optional or the party leader could control it with a slider or something.

You misunderstand. Putting a system in place to keep people from even queuing up for content they are not at a minimum gear level for would actually help stop harassment because it would make it a simple number you either are above the minimum number or you are not... The server determines this not the players.

You cannot stop players from checking gear and so forth when forming groups on their own... but for Duty Finder it would be a simple algorithm that determines if you qualify to queue up or not.

It's a good thing in my opinion. This system, just like Duty Finder, is not new or unique to this game... I'm actually surprised Yoshi didn't have it from the start considering how freely he has taken the good ideas from other MMO's to make this game. It has made things more fair in other games for players to get to do content. Simply queue up and you're good to go as long as you have the required level of gear on.

Hello,
Currently the dev team also knows that there are times you can’t easily join contents, please let me explain how we are going to address this matter.

修理費用およびダークマターの価格の大幅な値下げ
Greatly lowering repair costs and Dark Matter prices.


高レベル帯に重点を置きつつ、全般的に修理費用およびダークマターの価格を大幅に下げます。
Carefully looking into high levels, we will greatly lower the overall repair costs and dark matter prices.


高レベルダンジョンなどの参加条件にアイテムレベルを追加
Add item level requirement for participation for high level dungeons.


高レベル向けのインスタンスダンジョンおよび蛮神戦などに参加する際、一定以上のアイテムレベルを持った装備品を装備していることが条件として追加されます。これに伴い、ã‚ャラクターウィンドウに装備品のアイテムレベルの平均値を表示する仕組みを実装します。
We will be adding a minimum gear item level requirement when participating in high level instanced dungeons or primal battles, We will be adding a feature which shows the characters average gear item level in the character window.


パーティ募集ウィンドウの追加
Adding a party invitation window


自分のいるワールド限定でパーティを募集できる掲示板のような仕組みを導入します。募集の際には希望するダンジョン名や募集したいãƒãƒ¼ãƒ«ã€ãƒ¬ãƒ™ãƒ«ãªã©ã‚’登録することができます。
(詳細仕様は後日公開をお待ちください)
We will be implementing a feature similar to a bulletin board where you can request for party members with players in your own world. When requesting, you will be able to put the dungeon name, role, level information.
(Detailed information to follow at a later time.)


1については9月12日(木)のメンテナンス後、2と3についてはパッチ2.1以降に実装する予定です。
First one will be implemented in 9/12’s maintenance, for 2&3 these are planned to be released in post 2.1.

You misunderstand. Putting a system in place to keep people from even queuing up for content they are not at a minimum gear level for would actually help stop harassment because it would make it a simple number you either are above the minimum number or you are not... The server determines this not the players.

You cannot stop players from checking gear and so forth when forming groups on their own... but for Duty Finder it would be a simple algorithm that determines if you qualify to queue up or not.

It's a good thing in my opinion. This system, just like Duty Finder, is not new or unique to this game... I'm actually surprised Yoshi didn't have it from the start considering how freely he has taken the good ideas from other MMO's to make this game. It has made things more fair in other games for players to get to do content. Simply queue up and you're good to go as long as you have the required level of gear on.

This would be awesome!

Where did you see this at? I did not see it mentioned in the OP.