Welp, Gearscore has infected itFollow

My point exactly. Good luck ever convincing me that gear is a necessity. You would be surprised what tenacious skilled players can do.

I am wearing level 50 crafting gear with materia and using food and getting the required stats to craft 2 star items. Noted that I have very good jewellery and have filled every materia spot but it can be done.

......does raise the question though why I dont just craft the AF crafting sets - I really must get to that.

It's not really being judged harshly that people are afraid of. It is being unable to play the game at all. You may be good at reaction time and reliability, as well as well mannered, something that became rare in FFXI but you can't prove this unless you play with others. The stopping point is your gear. If it don't match your gameplay/social skills, people will not take you seriously. And I'm not saying everyone is like this - but often the good geared players are the worst players to be around. Ready to give up on you at a moments notice. You can't make mistakes(human factors are void with them), and admitting/taking responsibility for your mistakes(being a man/woman about it) means very little to these players.

Now you're gonna feel pressured to get better, and this is going to weigh heavily on your mind. After awhile it turns to poison. Combined with the fact that your invitation rate is deteriorating. You look at the AH and you think to yourself, what are your options? What can you do to be the best you can be for others, because doing it for yourself will not be based on their expectations. OK time to get the tools you need to farm.. time to see what times farmed items are "camped" so that you can arrive when there is no competition. Oh wait..that's right, the gear people are expecting of you is RARE/EX. And since this requires HELP from said highly geared players, despite DEMANDING you to get "like them" they will not help you become geared like them.

So if you don't have a static(I never had this in all my 9yrs in FFXI) or a GOOD LS with players who do have the morality to help others attain new heights. You are screwed and left with the option to quit.




Edited, Sep 4th 2013 5:13am by Zaleshea

Some one had mentioned the old Icc days yeah but it was near the end of woltk and mind you i quit because I was a end raid guild 4th on my server and I would some times go as a stand in heal with fow who was server first ally side.... we downed naxx in like the first week of Lich king and I was full t7.5 in two weeks after release.. that was a gear score only minor points above 4 k. I come back and ppl tell me I needed 5k or better wtf get out of here I was killing this shiz before they even hit 75..... And my guild downed it our first time in barely any heroic 5man purps we were all like t6 purps and Lvl 80 blues and only 16 Raiders so all my kills are the less is more achieves cause we were specific on if we took extras or not. .... So this is proof skill will always out weigh gear. gearscore is for the badly skilled no matter what game you play. there is nothing wrong with appropriate gear for what your doing. no I would not take a person in all greens to a epic raid but I wouldnt take some one with a hawtie attitude either. I stuff that in its butt by being the raid leader as tank or heals.. That is my best way around it. If it's started here too there should be SE guided gear reqs on the duty finder. I found that nipped it in other games cause it brings an argument to the table that those with ej attitudes can't fight. I'm sorry but the masses can't always be on grinding their lives away to be a slave to the teen with summer vacations or the 35 year old still in mommas basement...