btw to the people who are worried that their gear will get invalidated in an update or two, iirc, i believe in the Q&A segment someone asked about whether ilvl was gonna go up and Matsui basically said in the FFXI Lounge video that they intend for the ilvl cap to stay at 119 for quite some time.
so if thats the case then the rest of the expansion will help establish more breadth for gear at this item level range, starting with AF of course.