Item Level

Item Levels are displayed at the bottom of certain equipment's item descriptions.

Applicable Items

 * Item levels are only displayed on certain level 99 equipment.
 * Generally, only weapons and armor equipped on the head, hands, body, legs, and feet slots have item levels.
 * Additionally, equipment introduced before March 27, 2013 generally do not have item levels.

Effects
For all jobs except Beastmaster, Dragoon, Summoner, and Puppetmaster, item levels are only a symbolic measurement of an item's power and do not currently have any effects.
 * At level 99, certain Beastmaster Jug Pets can have their stats increased based on the weapon equipped in the main hand.
 * The internal level of the pet is still level 99, but the pet's stats are raised.
 * The following pets are affected by item levels:
 * Slippery Silas / Turbid Toloi / Crafty Clyvonne / Dipper Yuly / Flowerpot Merle / Lucky Lulush / Nursery Nazuna / Dapper Mac / Discreet Louise / Fatso Fargann / Presto Julio / Mailbuster Cetas / Audacious Anna / Swift Sieghard / Faithful Falcorr / Bloodclaw Shasra / Bugeyed Broncha / Gorefang Hobs / Gooey Gerard / Crude Raphie

Note: in all of the above cases, changing equipment that affects a pet's stats will dynamically adjust the pet's stats, even if the pet is already active.
 * At level 99, Dragoon Wyverns' levels are based on the item level of the weapon equipped in the main hand.
 * At level 99, Avatars' levels are based on the item level of the item equipped in the ammo slot.
 * At level 99, Automatons' levels are based on the item level of the animator equipped.